Psalm 5:9 {10}
Good News Translation
What my enemies say can never be trusted; they only want to destroy. Their words are flattering and smooth, but full of deadly deceit.

New Revised Standard Version
For there is no truth in their mouths; their hearts are destruction; their throats are open graves; they flatter with their tongues.

Contemporary English Version
Nothing they say is true! They just want to destroy. Their words are deceitful like a hidden pit, and their tongues are good only for telling lies.

New American Bible
For there is no sincerity in their mouth; their heart is corrupt. Their throat is an open grave; on their tongue are subtle lies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.

For

Psalm 36:1-4 Unto the end, for the servant of God, David himself. [2] The unjust hath said within himself, that he would sin: there is no fear of God before his eyes. . . .

Psalm 52:2 All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.

Psalm 58:3 The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.

Psalm 62:4,9 But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart. . . .

Psalm 111:1-3 I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; in the council of the just, and in the congregation. . . .

Jeremiah 9:3-6 And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord. . . .

Micah 6:12 By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth.

Romans 1:29-31 Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers, . . .

Romans 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

faithfulness.

Psalm 51:6 For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.

Psalm 58:2 For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.

Psalm 62:4 But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart.

Psalm 64:6 They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart:

Jeremiah 4:14 Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?

Mark 7:21,22 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, . . .

Luke 11:39 And the Lord said to him: Now you, Pharisees, make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter: but your inside is full of rapine and iniquity.

very wickedness.

Luke 11:44 Woe to you, because you are as sepulchres that appear not: and men that walk over are not aware.

Romans 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

they

Psalm 12:2,3 They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken. . . .

Job 32:21,22 I will not accept the person of man, and I will not level God with man. . . .

Proverbs 29:5 A man that speaketh to his friend with flattering and dissembling words, spreadeth a net for his feet.

1 Thessalonians 2:5 For neither have we used at any time the speech of flattery, as you know: nor taken an occasion of covetousness (God is witness):

Context
Give Ear to My Words
8Conduct me, O Lord, in thy justice: because of my enemies, direct my way in thy sight. 9For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.10Their throat is an open sepulchre: they dealt deceitfully with their tongues: judge them, O God. Let them fall from their devices: according to the multitude of their wickednesses cast them out: for they have provoked thee, O Lord.…
Cross References
Romans 3:13
Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:

Psalm 7:14
Behold he hath been in labour with injustice: he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth iniquity.

Psalm 52:2
All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.

Psalm 52:3
Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.

Psalm 55:11
And injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its streets.

Proverbs 29:5
A man that speaketh to his friend with flattering and dissembling words, spreadeth a net for his feet.

Jeremiah 5:16
Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all valiant.

Psalm 5:8
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