Psalms 5:9
9 For there is no truth in their mouth;their inmost self is adestruction;
btheir throat is can open grave;
they dflatter with their tongue.
Psalms 12:2
2Everyone eutters lies to his neighbor;with fflattering lips and ga double heart they speak.
Psalms 55:21
21His hspeech was ismooth as butter,yet war was in his heart;
his words were softer than oil,
yet they were jdrawn swords.
Proverbs 29:5
5 kA man who flatters his neighborspreads la net for his feet.
Isaiah 59:13-15
13transgressing, and denying the Lord,and turning back from following our God,
mspeaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.
Judgment and Redemption
14 nJustice is turned back,and righteousness stands far away;
for truth has stumbled in the public squares,
and uprightness cannot enter.
15Truth is lacking,
and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.
The Lord saw it, and it displeased him ▼
▼Hebrew and it was evil in his eyes
that there was no justice.
Jeremiah 9:3-5
3 pThey bend their tongue like a bow;falsehood and not truth has grown strong ▼
▼Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong
in the land;for they proceed from evil to evil,
rand they do not know me, declares the Lord.
4 sLet everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every tbrother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor ugoes about as a slanderer.
5Everyone deceives his neighbor,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
they weary themselves committing iniquity.
Ezekiel 33:30-31
30“As for you, vson of man, wyour people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, say to one another, each to his brother, ‘Come, and hear what the word is that comes from the Lord.’ 31 xAnd they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for ywith lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.
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