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They utter lies to each other;
    with flattering lips and a deceitful heart they speak.(A)

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18 For such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites,[a] and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded.(A)

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  1. 16.18 Gk their own belly

Their tongue is a deadly arrow;
    it speaks deceit through the mouth.
They all speak friendly words to their neighbors
    but inwardly are planning to lay an ambush.(A)

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And when they come to see me, they utter empty words
    while their hearts gather mischief;
    when they go out, they tell it abroad.(A)

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whose mouths speak lies
    and whose right hands are false.(A)

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Their mouths are filled with cursing and deceit and oppression;
    under their tongues are mischief and iniquity.(A)

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For there is no truth in their mouths;
    their hearts are destruction;
their throats are open graves;
    they flatter with their tongues.(A)

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7,8 For the doubter, being double-minded and unstable in every way, must not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

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Do not drag me away with the wicked,
    with those who are workers of evil,
who speak peace with their neighbors
    while mischief is in their hearts.(A)

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Psalm 52

Judgment on the Deceitful

To the leader. A Maskil of David, when Doeg the Edomite came to Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”

Why do you boast, O mighty one,
    of mischief done against the godly?[a]
All day long(A)     you are plotting destruction.
Your tongue is like a sharp razor,
    you worker of treachery.(B)
You love evil more than good
    and lying more than speaking the truth. Selah(C)
You love all words that devour,
    O deceitful tongue.(D)

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  1. 52.1 Cn Compare Syr: Heb the kindness of God

As you know and as God is our witness, we never came with words of flattery or with a pretext for greed,(A)

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24 For there shall no longer be any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel.(A)

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[a]O that I had in the desert
    a traveler’s lodging place,
that I might leave my people
    and go away from them!
For they are all adulterers,
    a band of traitors.(A)
They bend their tongues like bows;
    they have grown strong in the land for falsehood and not for truth,
for they proceed from evil to evil,
    and they do not know me, says the Lord.(B)

Beware of your neighbors,
    and put no trust in any of your kin,
for all your kin are supplanters,
    and every neighbor goes around like a slanderer.(C)
They all deceive their neighbors,
    and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongues to speak lies;
    they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.[b](D)
Oppression upon oppression, deceit[c] upon deceit!
    They refuse to know me, says the Lord.(E)

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  1. 9.2 9.1 in Heb
  2. 9.5 Cn Compare Gk: Heb they weary themselves with iniquity. Your dwelling
  3. 9.6 Cn Compare Gk: Heb Your dwelling in the midst of deceit

Whoever flatters a neighbor
    is spreading a net for the neighbor’s feet.

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19 A gossip reveals secrets;
    therefore do not associate with a babbler.(A)

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11 Rescue me from the cruel sword,
    and deliver me from the hand of aliens,
whose mouths speak lies,
    and whose right hands are false.(A)

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Their only plan is to bring down a person of prominence.
    They take pleasure in falsehood;
they bless with their mouths,
    but inwardly they curse. Selah(A)

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21 with speech smoother than butter
    but with a heart set on war,
with words that were softer than oil
    but in fact were drawn swords.(A)

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12 For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips,
    let them be trapped in their pride.
For the cursing and lies that they utter,(A)

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12 Those who seek my life lay their snares;
    those who seek to hurt me speak of ruin
    and meditate on treachery all day long.(A)

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The words of their mouths are mischief and deceit;
    they have ceased to act wisely and do good.(A)
They plot mischief while on their beds;
    they are set on a way that is not good;
    they do not reject evil.(B)

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33 Of Zebulun, fifty thousand seasoned troops equipped for battle with all the weapons of war to help David[a] with singleness of purpose.(A)

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  1. 12.33 Gk: Heb lacks David