Psalms 10:7

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“His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.”

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BSBPD

“His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue <FI>is<Fi> perverseness and iniquity,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 10:7 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 15:35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”
  2. Job 20:12Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,
  3. Psalms 5:9For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
  4. Psalms 7:14Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
  5. Psalms 12:2They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
  6. Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.
  7. Psalms 41:6My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.
  8. Psalms 50:19You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.
  9. Psalms 52:4You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
  10. Psalms 55:21His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.
  11. Psalms 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
  12. Psalms 59:12By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.
  13. Psalms 59:13Consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, so it may be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Selah
  14. Psalms 62:4They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah
  15. Psalms 64:3who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
  16. Psalms 73:8They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.
  17. Psalms 140:3They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
  18. Psalms 140:9May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.
  19. Psalms 144:8whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
  20. Psalms 144:11Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
  21. Proverbs 21:6Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.
  22. Proverbs 30:8Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
  23. Isaiah 59:4No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
  24. Jeremiah 9:3“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.

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