They pour out their (A)arrogant words;
    all (B)the evildoers boast.

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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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The Steadfast Love of God Endures

To the choirmaster. A Maskil[a] of David, when (A)Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”

52 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?
    The steadfast love of God endures all the day.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 52:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term

And the beast was given (A)a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for (B)forty-two months. It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling,[a] that is, those who dwell in heaven.

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  1. Revelation 13:6 Or tabernacle

14 It was also about these that Enoch, (A)the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, (B)“Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, 15 (C)to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have (D)committed in such an ungodly way, and of all (E)the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

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34 (A)You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, (B)when you are evil? (C)For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

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24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, (A)“It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons.”

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36 “And the king shall (A)do as he wills. (B)He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, (C)and shall speak astonishing things against (D)the God of gods. (E)He shall prosper (F)till the indignation is accomplished; for what is decreed shall be done. 37 He shall pay no attention to the gods of his fathers, or to the one beloved by women. He shall not pay attention to any other god, for (G)he shall magnify himself above all.

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11 (A)It became great, even as great as (B)the Prince of the host. (C)And the regular burnt offering was taken away from him, and the place of his sanctuary was overthrown.

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25 (A)He shall speak words against the Most High,
    and shall wear out the saints of the Most High,
    and shall think to (B)change the times and the law;
and they shall be given into his hand
    for (C)a time, times, and half a time.

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11 “I looked then because of the sound of (A)the great words that the horn was speaking. And as I looked, (B)the beast was killed, and its body destroyed (C)and given over to be burned with fire.

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I considered the horns, and behold, (A)there came up among them another horn, a little one, (B)before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and (C)a mouth speaking great things.

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18 Then they said, (A)“Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, (B)for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. (C)Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”

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24 By your servants you have mocked the Lord,
    and you have said, (A)With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
    to the far recesses of Lebanon,
(B)to cut down its tallest cedars,
    its choicest cypresses,
to come to its remotest height,
    its most fruitful forest.
25 I dug wells
    and drank waters,
to dry up with the sole of my foot
    all (C)the streams (D)of Egypt.

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13 (A)For he says:

“By the strength of my hand I have done it,
    and by my wisdom, for I have understanding;
I remove the boundaries of peoples,
    and plunder their treasures;
    like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.
14 My hand has found like a nest
    the wealth of the peoples;
and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken,
    so I have gathered all the earth;
and there was none that moved a wing
    or opened the mouth or chirped.”

15 Shall (B)the axe boast over him who hews with it,
    or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?
As if a rod should wield him who lifts it,
    or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!

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14 There are those whose teeth are (A)swords,
    whose (B)fangs are knives,
to (C)devour the poor from off the earth,
    the needy from among mankind.

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They make (A)their tongue sharp as (B)a serpent's,
    and (C)under their lips is the (D)venom of asps. Selah

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They scoff and (A)speak with malice;
    loftily they threaten oppression.
They set their mouths against the heavens,
    and their tongue struts through the earth.

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who (A)whet their tongues like swords,
    who (B)aim bitter words like arrows,
shooting from (C)ambush at the blameless,
    shooting at him suddenly and (D)without fear.

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12 For (A)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,

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There they are, (A)bellowing with their mouths
    with (B)swords in their lips—
    for (C)“Who,” they think,[a] “will hear us?”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 59:7 Hebrew lacks they think

In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor;
    let them (A)be caught in the schemes that they have devised.
For the wicked (B)boasts of the desires of his soul,
    and the one greedy for gain (C)curses[a] and (D)renounces the Lord.
In the pride of his face[b] the wicked does not (E)seek him;[c]
    all his thoughts are, (F)“There is no God.”
His ways prosper at all times;
    your judgments are on high, (G)out of his sight;
    as for all his foes, he (H)puffs at them.
He (I)says in his heart, “I shall not be moved;
    throughout all generations I (J)shall not meet adversity.”
(K)His mouth is filled with cursing and (L)deceit and (M)oppression;
    (N)under his tongue are (O)mischief and (P)iniquity.

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  1. Psalm 10:3 Or and he blesses the one greedy for gain
  2. Psalm 10:4 Or of his anger
  3. Psalm 10:4 Or the wicked says, “He will not call to account”

14 They say to God, (A)‘Depart from us!
    We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
15 (B)What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
    And what (C)profit do we get if we pray to him?’

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The enemy said, (A)‘I will pursue, I will overtake,
    I (B)will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them.
    I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’
10 You (C)blew with your wind; the (D)sea covered them;
    they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

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