¹ Why boast thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God [is] continual. ² Thy tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. ³ Thou love evil more than good, and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

Phrases

All Day Long

Devises Evil

Cross References

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions. I lay among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 50:19

Thou give thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frames deceit.

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they belch out with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, for [they say], Who hears?

Psalm 64:2-6

Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, from the tumult of the workers of iniquity,

Psalm 109:2

for they have opened against me the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

Psalm 120:2

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

Psalm 140:2-3

[and men] who devise mischievous things in their heart. They gather themselves continually together for war.

Proverbs 6:16-19

There are six things which LORD hates, yea, seven which are an abomination to him:

Proverbs 12:18

There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw teeth, knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

Jeremiah 9:3-4

And they bend their tongue--their bow--for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah. For the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not gi

Matthew 26:59

Now the chief priests and the elders and the whole council sought FALSE testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death,

Acts 6:11-13

Then they instigated men who said, We have heard him speaking blasphemous sayings against Moses and God.

Acts 24:1

And after five days Ananias the high priest came down with the elders, and a certain orator, Tertullus, who appeared to the governor against Paul.

Acts 24:5

For we have found this man a plague, who even instigates sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,

2 Corinthians 4:2

But we have renounced the covert things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor misrepresenting the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.

2 Corinthians 11:13

For such men are FALSE apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves into apostles of Christ.

Revelation 12:10

And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now it came to pass, the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ. Because the accuser of our brothers was cast out, who accuses them before