Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

Wickedness

General references

Bible References

Wickedness

Ezekiel 22:1
Moreover the word of LORD came to me, saying,
Acts 7:51
Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers, ye also.

Deceit

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.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Jeremiah 5:26
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch as fowlers lay in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
Jeremiah 9:3
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.
Matthew 26:4
and they deliberated so that they might take Jesus by trickery, and kill him.

General references

Habakkuk 1:3
Why do thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? For destruction and violence are before me, and there is strife, and contention rises up.