Psalms 4:2 Sons of men! till when 'is' my glory for shame? Ye love a vain thing, ye seek a lie. Selah. (See RSV)
Psalms 5:6 You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. (WEB ASV DBY YLT RSV NIV)
Psalms 7:14 Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. (See RSV)
Psalms 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. (See NIV)
Psalms 10:8 He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. (WEB NIV)
Psalms 10:9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net. (WEB NIV)
Psalms 12:2 Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart. (WEB RSV NIV)
Psalms 34:13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies. (WEB NIV)
Psalms 40:4 Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Psalms 41:8 "An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more." (WEB NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 55:11 Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets. (WEB NIV)
Psalms 58:3 The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 59:12 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. (WEB NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 62:4 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NIV)
Psalms 63:11 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Psalms 69:4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away. (See RSV)
Psalms 88:7 Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah. (WEB RSV NIV)
Psalms 101:7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight. (KJV WBS YLT RSV)
Psalms 119:69 The proud have forged a lie against me; but I with my whole heart will keep Thy precepts. (See RSV NIV)
Psalms 144:8 In whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit. (See RSV NIV)
Psalms 144:11 Make me free, and take me out of the hands of strange men, in whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit. (See RSV NIV)
Proverbs 6:19 a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 7:12 Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lieth in wait at every corner. (See RSV)
Proverbs 12:17 He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies. (WEB NIV)
Proverbs 13:5 A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace. (WEB)
Proverbs 14:5 A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 14:25 A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Proverbs 19:5 A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 19:9 A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 23:28 Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men. (WEB RSV NIV)
Proverbs 23:34 Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging: (WEB NAS RSV)
Proverbs 29:12 If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked. (WEB KJV WBS NIV)
Proverbs 30:8 Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS NIV)
Ecclesiastes 6:1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men; (See RSV)
Ecclesiastes 8:6 For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him. (See RSV)
Ecclesiastes 11:3 If the clouds are full of rain, they send it down on the earth; and if a tree comes down to the south, or the north, in whatever place it comes down, there it will be. (See NAS)
Song of Songs 1:13 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts. (WEB NAS RSV)
Isaiah 1:7 Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands. (See RSV)
Isaiah 9:15 The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so. (KJV WBS)
Isaiah 18:1 Ho! land of the sounding of wings, on the other side of the rivers of Ethiopia: (See NAS)
Isaiah 24:5 The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken. (See RSV)
Isaiah 24:10 The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in. (See NIV)
Isaiah 24:20 The earth will be moving uncertainly, like a man overcome by drink; it will be shaking like a tent; and the weight of its sin will be on it, crushing it down so that it will not get up again. (See RSV)
Isaiah 27:10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken, like the wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof (See RSV)
Isaiah 28:15 "Because you have said,'We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won't come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)
Isaiah 28:17 I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Isaiah 32:7 The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right. (See NIV)
Isaiah 59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 59:4 None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 59:13 We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit. (See NIV)
Isaiah 64:11 In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment? (See NIV)
Jeremiah 4:20 News is given of destruction on destruction; all the land is made waste: suddenly my tents, straight away my curtains, are made waste. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end? (See NIV)
Jeremiah 9:3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. (KJV WBS NAS NIV)
Jeremiah 9:5 They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 13:25 This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me, says Yahweh; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. (See RSV)
Jeremiah 14:14 Then Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn't send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 16:19 Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, even vanity and things in which there is no profit. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)
Jeremiah 20:6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies. (KJV WBS NIV)
Jeremiah 23:10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right; (See NIV)
Jeremiah 23:14 In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)
Jeremiah 23:25 I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 23:26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart? (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)
Jeremiah 23:32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn't send them, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, says Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 27:10 for they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out and ye should perish. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 27:14 And hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying: Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon, for they prophesy a lie unto you. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 27:15 For I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 27:16 Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying: 'Thus saith the LORD: Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying: Behold, the vessels of the LORD'S house shall now shortly be brought back from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie unto you. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 28:15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet: 'Hear now, Hananiah; the LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 29:9 For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not sent them, says Yahweh. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 29:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie unto you in My name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes; (See NIV)
Jeremiah 29:23 because they have worked folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn't command them; and I am he who knows, and am witness, says Yahweh. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 40:4 Now, behold, I release you this day from the chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, don't: behold, all the land is before you; where it seems good and right to you to go, there go. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 48:30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it. (KJV WBS)
Lamentations 1:1 How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces is become tributary! (See NIV)
Lamentations 5:18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 9:2 Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man in the midst of them clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar. (WEB)
Ezekiel 13:8 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)
Ezekiel 13:9 My hand shall be against the prophets who see false visions, and who divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
Ezekiel 13:19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 13:22 Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive: (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NIV)
Ezekiel 21:29 while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end. (WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV)
Ezekiel 22:28 Her prophets have daubed for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Ezekiel 24:12 She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire. (KJV WBS)
Ezekiel 26:2 Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken: the gate of the peoples; she is turned to me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste: (See NIV)
Ezekiel 29:3 Speak and say,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said,'My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.' (WEB NAS RSV)
Ezekiel 32:23 whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living. (See NIV)
Ezekiel 47:16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran. (See RSV NIV)
Daniel 2:22 he reveals the deep and secret things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him. (See NIV)
Daniel 11:27 As for both these kings, their hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table: but it shall not prosper; for yet the end shall be at the time appointed. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Hosea 7:3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Hosea 7:13 Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Hosea 10:13 You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Hosea 11:12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints. (KJV JPS DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Hosea 12:1 Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS NIV)
Amos 2:4 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected Yahweh's law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Amos 5:2 "The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up." (See NAS)
Micah 2:11 If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: "I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;" he would be the prophet of this people. (WEB NAS RSV)
Micah 6:12 Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)