Psalm 52:5
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5 But God will break you down forever;
he will snatch and tear you from your tent;
he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah(A)
Proverbs 2:22
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22 but the wicked will be cut off from the earth,
and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.(A)
Psalm 27:13
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13 I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord
in the land of the living.(A)
Revelation 21:8
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8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless,[a] the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral,[b] the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”(A)
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Luke 16:27-28
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27 He said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house— 28 for I have five brothers—that he may warn them, so that they will not also come into this place of torment.’
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Isaiah 38:11
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11 I said, I shall not see the Lord
in the land of the living;
I shall look upon mortals no more
among the inhabitants of the world.(A)
Isaiah 22:19
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19 I will thrust you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your post.
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Proverbs 19:9
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9 A false witness will not go unpunished,
and the liar will perish.
Proverbs 19:5
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5 A false witness will not go unpunished,
and a liar will not escape.(A)
Proverbs 12:19
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19 Truthful lips endure forever,
but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.(A)
Psalm 140:9-11
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9 Those who surround me lift up their heads;[a]
let the mischief of their lips overwhelm them!(A)
10 Let burning coals fall on them!
Let them be flung into pits, no more to rise!(B)
11 Do not let the slanderer be established in the land;
let evil speedily hunt down the violent!(C)
Footnotes
- 140.9 Cn: Heb those who surround me are uplifted in head
Psalm 120:2-4
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2 “Deliver me, O Lord,
from lying lips,
from a deceitful tongue.”
3 What shall be given to you?
And what more shall be done to you,
you deceitful tongue?
4 A warrior’s sharp arrows,
with glowing coals of the broom tree!(A)
Psalm 116:9
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9 I walk before the Lord
in the land of the living.
Psalm 64:7-10
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7 But God will shoot his arrow at them;
they will be wounded suddenly.
8 Because of their tongue he will bring them to ruin;[a]
all who see them will shake with horror.(A)
9 Then everyone will fear;
they will tell what God has brought about
and ponder what he has done.(B)
10 Let the righteous rejoice in the Lord
and take refuge in him.
Let all the upright in heart glory.(C)
Footnotes
- 64.8 Cn: Heb They will bring him to ruin, their tongue being against them
Psalm 55:23
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23 But you, O God, will cast them down
into the lowest pit;
the bloodthirsty and treacherous
shall not live out half their days.
But I will trust in you.(A)
Psalm 37:35-36
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Psalm 7:14-16
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14 See how they conceive evil
and are pregnant with mischief
and bring forth lies.(A)
15 They make a pit, digging it out,
and fall into the hole that they have made.(B)
16 Their mischief returns upon their own heads,
and on their own heads their violence descends.(C)
Job 20:6-7
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6 Even though they mount up high as the heavens
and their head reaches to the clouds,(A)
7 they will perish forever like their own dung;
those who have seen them will say, ‘Where are they?’
Job 18:14
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14 They are torn from the tent in which they trusted
and are brought to the king of terrors.(A)
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