1119 verses about Lying

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I shall not lie to your face.

Is there injustice on my tongue? Can’t my taste discern mischievous things?

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.

They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.

So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye shall see me.’ He disguises his face.

If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

Please don’t let me respect any man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man.

For I don’t know how to give flattering titles; or else my Maker would soon take me away.

Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’

‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’

Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”

“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.

You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow.

He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

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

I said in my haste, “All men are liars.”

Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!

The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.

Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.

As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers;

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”

for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

The foolish woman is loud, undisciplined, and knows nothing.