Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.
Mischiefs are in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.
Perversities are in the midst thereof; and oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.
Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Voices4
Wickedness is in the midst thereof,.... All manner of wickedness; abominable wickedness; wickedness as arrived to its highest pitch, and as having filled up its measure; see Eze 9:4; deceit and guile depart not from her streets; where truth was fallen, and equity could not enter, Isa 59:14; for these are contrary the one to the other, and are incompatible; where the one prevails, the other must give way.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
"Day and night." Here he shows in particular. In every city there are three things: namely, walls that surround it, the central habitation, and the public squares. And the Philosopher distinguishes three classes of men. By walls are understood the rulers and magnates of the …
Thomas Aquinas· Exposition on the Psalms of David, 1274patristic
Ver. 11. Wickedness is in the midst thereof. The very heart of the city was base. In her places of authority crime went hand in hand with calamity. All the wilder and more wicked elements were uppermost; the canaille were commanders; the scum floated uppermost; justice was at a discount; the population was utterly demoralized; prosperity had vanished and order with it. Deceit and guile depart not from her streets. In all the places of concourse crafty tongues were busy persuading the people with cozening phrases. Crafty demagogues led the people by the nose.
Is this the character of Jerusalem, the royal city, and, which is more, the holy city, and in David's time too, so soon after the thrones of judgment and the testimony of Israel were both placed there? Is this the city that men call the perfection of beauty?
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
The walk8
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Psalms 5:9For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
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“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah
For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
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Isaiah 59:7Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.
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haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
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Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
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Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
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Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.
For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.
For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.
“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
and they conspired to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.
And sending them to Bethlehem, he said: “Go and search carefully for the Child, and when you find Him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship Him.”
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