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Psalms 5:9
Psalms 5:9 is verse 9 of Psalms chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
Or flattery; cited in Romans 3:13
King James Version
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
World English Bible
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
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Psalms 5:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
7 But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.
8 Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me.
9 For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
10 Declare them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own devices. Drive them out for their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.
11 But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them ever shout for joy. May You shelter them, that those who love Your name may rejoice in You.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 36:1An oracle is in my heart regarding the transgression of the wicked man: There is no fear of God before his eyes.
Psalms 36:2For his eyes are too full of conceit to detect or hate his own sin.
Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.
Psalms 36:4Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
Psalms 52:2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
Psalms 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
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
Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
Psalms 111:1Hallelujah! I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.
Psalms 111:2Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them.
Psalms 111:3Splendid and majestic is His work; His righteousness endures forever.
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.
Jeremiah 9:4“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.
Jeremiah 9:5Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.
Jeremiah 9:6You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.
Micah 6:12For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
Romans 1:29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
Romans 1:30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
Romans 1:31They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.
Romans 3:13“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
Psalms 51:6Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Psalms 58:2No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.
Psalms 64:6They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.
Jeremiah 4:14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Mark 7:21For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
Mark 7:22greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
Luke 11:39“Now then,” said the Lord, “you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
Luke 11:44Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.”
Psalms 12:2They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
Psalms 12:3May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.
Job 32:21I will be partial to no one, nor will I flatter any man.
Job 32:22For I do not know how to flatter, or my Maker would remove me in an instant.
Proverbs 29:5A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
1 Thessalonians 2:5As you know, we never used words of flattery or any pretext for greed. God is our witness!