Psalms 59:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“By 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.”
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“By 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.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Forthe sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for cursing and lying which they speak.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“The sin of their mouth <FI>is<Fi> a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 59:12 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 12:24He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
- Psalms 10:2In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
- Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
- Psalms 64:7But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.
- Psalms 79:12Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.
- Psalms 109:17The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.
- Psalms 120:3What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?
- Psalms 140:9May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.
- Proverbs 6:2if you have been trapped by the words of your lips, ensnared by the words of your mouth,
- Proverbs 11:6The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the faithless are trapped by their own desires.
- Proverbs 12:13An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech, but a righteous man escapes from trouble.
- Proverbs 18:7A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
- Lamentations 3:62the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.
- Ezekiel 12:16But I will spare a few of them from sword and famine and plague, so that in the nations to which they go, they can recount all their abominations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
- Hosea 4:2Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
- Zephaniah 3:11On that day you will not be put to shame for any of the deeds by which you have transgressed against Me. For then I will remove from among you those who rejoice in their pride, and you will never again be haughty on My holy mountain.
- Matthew 12:36But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.
- Matthew 27:25All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
- Matthew 27:63“Sir,” they said, “we remember that while He was alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’
- Luke 23:5But they kept insisting, “He stirs up the people all over Judea with His teaching. He began in Galilee and has come all the way here.”
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