'Falsehood' in the Bible
“How then will you vainly comfort me,For your answers remain full of falsehood?”
“If I have walked with falsehood,And my foot has hastened after deceit,
You destroy those who speak falsehood;The Lord abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
Behold, he travails with wickedness,And he conceives mischief and brings forth falsehood.
They speak falsehood to one another;With flattering lips and with a double heart they speak.
He who has clean hands and a pure heart,Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehoodAnd has not sworn deceitfully.
How blessed is the man who has made the Lord his trust,And has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.
And when he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood;His heart gathers wickedness to itself;When he goes outside, he tells it.
You love evil more than good,Falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.
They have counseled only to thrust him down from his high position;They delight in falsehood;They bless with their mouth,But inwardly they curse. Selah.
He who practices deceit shall not dwell within my house;He who speaks falsehood shall not maintain his position before me.
Whose mouths speak deceit,And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Rescue me and deliver me out of the hand of aliens,Whose mouth speaks deceitAnd whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
A righteous man hates falsehood,But a wicked man acts disgustingly and shamefully.
Bread obtained by falsehood is sweet to a man,But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.
If a ruler pays attention to falsehood,All his ministers become wicked.
Woe to those who drag iniquity with the cords of falsehood,And sin as if with cart ropes;
The head is the elder and honorable man,And the prophet who teaches falsehood is the tail.
Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,And with Sheol we have made a pact.The overwhelming scourge will not reach us when it passes by,For we have made falsehood our refuge and we have concealed ourselves with deception.”
For your hands are defiled with bloodAnd your fingers with iniquity;Your lips have spoken falsehood,Your tongue mutters wickedness.
“This is your lot, the portion measured to youFrom Me,” declares the Lord,“Because you have forgotten MeAnd trusted in falsehood.
Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds.
O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,And my refuge in the day of distress,To You the nations will comeFrom the ends of the earth and say,“Our fathers have inherited nothing but falsehood,Futility and things of no profit.”
“Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing:The committing of adultery and walking in falsehood;And they strengthen the hands of evildoers,So that no one has turned back from his wickedness.All of them have become to Me like Sodom,And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.
How long? Is there anything in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, even these prophets of the deception of their own heart,
They see falsehood and lying divination who are saying, ‘The Lord declares,’ when the Lord has not sent them; yet they hope for the fulfillment of their word.
Therefore, thus says the Lord God, “Because you have spoken falsehood and seen a lie, therefore behold, I am against you,” declares the Lord God.
Because you disheartened the righteous with falsehood when I did not cause him grief, but have encouraged the wicked not to turn from his wicked way and preserve his life,
“If a man walking after wind and falsehoodHad told lies and said,‘I will speak out to you concerning wine and liquor,’He would be spokesman to this people.
“What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?For its maker trusts in his own handiworkWhen he fashions speechless idols.