Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan peace have joy.

A truthful witness saves lives, but one who breathes out lies is deceitful.

Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.

Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart;

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.

Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit,

Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and rich;

Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.

Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.

And the Lord said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.

Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

How long shall there be lies in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart,

By his cunning he shall make deceit prosper under his hand, and in his own mind he shall become great. Without warning he shall destroy many. And he shall even rise up against the Prince of princes, and he shall be broken—but by no human hand.

And from the time that an alliance is made with him he shall act deceitfully, and he shall become strong with a small people.

Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.

saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances,

Therefore you shall give parting gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.

Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?

Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

those who are left in Israel; they shall do no injustice and speak no lies, nor shall there be found in their mouth a deceitful tongue. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.”