Deliver me, O Lord,
    from lying lips,
    from a deceitful tongue.

What shall be given to you,
    (A)and what more shall be done to you,
    you deceitful tongue?

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22 (A)Lying lips are (B)an abomination to the Lord,
    (C)but those who act faithfully are his delight.

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15 When you (A)spread out your hands,
    I will hide my eyes from you;
(B)even though you make many prayers,
    I will not listen;
    (C)your hands are full of blood.

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Whoever slanders his neighbor (A)secretly
    I will (B)destroy.
Whoever has a (C)haughty look and an (D)arrogant heart
    I will not endure.

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You destroy those who speak (A)lies;
    the Lord abhors (B)the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

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For the look on their faces bears witness against them;
    they proclaim their sin (A)like Sodom;
    they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
    (B)For they have brought evil on themselves.

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(A)Haughty eyes and a proud heart,
    (B)the lamp[a] of the wicked, are sin.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:4 Or the plowing

25 (A)“‘Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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44 (A)You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. (B)He was a murderer from the beginning, and (C)does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. (D)When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

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The Lord Accuses Israel

(A)Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel,
    for (B)the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.
There is no faithfulness or steadfast love,
    and (C)no knowledge of God in the land;
(D)there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;
    they break all bounds, and (E)bloodshed follows bloodshed.

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16 The Lord said:
(A)Because (B)the daughters of Zion are haughty
    and walk with outstretched necks,
    glancing wantonly with their eyes,
mincing along as they go,
    (C)tinkling with their feet,

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28 A lying tongue hates its victims,
    and a flattering mouth works ruin.

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27 For you save (A)a humble people,
    but (B)the haughty eyes you bring down.

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and also (A)for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon.

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10 lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.

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(A)For your hands are defiled with blood
    and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
    your tongue mutters wickedness.
(B)No one enters suit justly;
    no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
    (C)they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
They hatch adders' eggs;
    they weave the spider's web;
he who eats their eggs dies,
    and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.
(D)Their webs will not serve as clothing;
    men will not cover themselves with what they make.
Their works are works of iniquity,
    and deeds of violence are in their hands.
(E)Their feet run to evil,
    and they are swift to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
    desolation and destruction are in their highways.

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11 (A)The haughty looks of man shall be brought low,
    and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled,
and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

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13 There are those—how (A)lofty are their eyes,
    how high their eyelids lift!

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(A)A faithful witness does not lie,
    but (B)a false witness breathes out lies.

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18 Let the lying lips be mute,
    which (A)speak (B)insolently against the righteous
    in pride and contempt.

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15 (A)Outside are (B)the dogs (C)and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

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Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. (A)Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for (B)“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

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Fine speech is not (A)becoming to a fool;
    still less is (B)false speech to a prince.

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11 If they say, “Come with us, (A)let us lie in wait for blood;
    (B)let us ambush the innocent without reason;

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