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Psalms 59:12

Psalms 59:12 is verse 12 of Psalms chapter 59, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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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King James Version

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.

World English Bible

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

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Psalms 59:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible

10 My God of loving devotion will come to meet me; God will let me stare down my foes.

11 Do not kill them, or my people will forget. Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

12 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.

13 Consume 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 They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 64:7

But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.

Psalms 64:8

They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.

Psalms 79:12

Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.

Psalms 120:3

What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?

Psalms 120:4

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

Psalms 140:9

May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.

Psalms 140:10

May burning coals fall on them; may they be thrown into the fire, into the miry pits, never to rise again.

Proverbs 12:13

An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech, but a righteous man escapes from trouble.

Proverbs 18:7

A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

Matthew 12:36

But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.

Matthew 12:37

For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Matthew 27:25

All 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.’

Psalms 10:2

In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

Proverbs 6:2

if you have been trapped by the words of your lips, ensnared by the words of your mouth,

Proverbs 11:6

The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the faithless are trapped by their own desires.

Psalms 109:17

The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.

Psalms 109:18

The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

Hosea 4:2

Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

Luke 23:5

But 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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