Psalms 52:5

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Psalms 52:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah

4 You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.

5 Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

6 The righteous will see and fear; they will mock the evildoer, saying,

7 “Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”

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He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

Psalms 7:16

His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.

Psalms 55:23

But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

Psalms 64:7

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Psalms 64:8

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Psalms 64:9

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Psalms 64:10

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Psalms 120:2

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.

Psalms 120:3

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Psalms 120:4

Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!

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But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

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I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

Psalms 37:36

yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.

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He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.

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Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

Job 20:7

he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’

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‘Then I beg you, father,’ he said, ‘send Lazarus to my father’s house,

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