Psalm 36:3 {35:4}
Good News Translation
Their speech is wicked and full of lies; they no longer do what is wise and good.

New Revised Standard Version
The words of their mouths are mischief and deceit; they have ceased to act wisely and do good.

Contemporary English Version
They tell deceitful lies, and they don't have the sense to live right.

New American Bible
Empty and false are the words of his mouth; he has ceased to be wise and do good.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: he would not understand that he might do well.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: he would not understand that he might do well.

The words

Psalm 5:9 For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.

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. . . .

Psalm 55:21 They are divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart hath drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and the same are darts.

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

Psalm 140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of asps is under their lips.

1 Samuel 18:21 And Saul said: I will give her to him, that she may be a stumblingblock to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be upon him. And Saul said to David: In two things thou shalt be my son in law this day.

1 Samuel 19:6,7 And when Saul heard this, he was appeased with the words of Jonathan, and swore: As the Lord liveth, he shall not be slain. . . .

1 Samuel 26:21 And Saul said: I have sinned; return, my son David, for I will no more do thee harm, because my life hath been precious in thy eyes this day: for it appeareth that I have done foolishly, and have been ignorant in very many things.

Matthew 22:15-18 Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech. . . .

Matthew 22:35 And one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him:

he hath

Psalm 125:5 But such as turn aside into bonds, the Lord shall lead out with the workers of iniquity: peace upon Israel.

1 Samuel 11:6-13 And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Saul, when he had heard these words, and his anger was exceedingly kindled. . . .

1 Samuel 13:13,14 And Samuel said to Saul: Thou hast done foolishly, and hast not kept the commandments of the Lord thy God, which he commanded thee. And if thou hadst not done thus, the Lord would now have established thy kingdom over Israel for ever: . . .

1 Samuel 15:26 And Samuel said to Saul: I will not return with thee, because thou hath rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.

1 Samuel 16:14 But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.

Zephaniah 1:6 And them that turn away from following after the Lord, and that have not sought the Lord, nor searched after him.

Hebrews 10:39 But we are not the children of withdrawing unto perdition, but of faith to the saving of the soul.

1 John 2:19 They went out from us but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have remained with us: but that they may be manifest, that they are not all of us.

Context
The Transgression of the Wicked
2For in his sight he hath done deceitfully, that his iniquity may be found unto hatred. 3The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: he would not understand that he might do well.4He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath set himself on every way that is not good: but evil he hath not hated.…
Cross References
Psalm 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit: under his tongue are labor and sorrow.

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

Psalm 50:19
Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.

Psalm 94:8
Understand, ye senseless among the people: and, you fools, be wise at last.

Jeremiah 4:22
For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Psalm 36:2
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