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Give Ear to My Words

Psalms 5:6

In 11 translations

BSB
You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
KJV
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.bloody…: Heb. man of bloods and deceit
WEB
You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
ASV
Thou wilt destroy them that speak lies: Jehovah abhorreth the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.
LSV
You destroy those speaking lies, || YHWH detests a man of blood and deceit.
YLT
Thou destroyest those speaking lies, A man of blood and deceit Jehovah doth abominate.
DBY
Thou wilt destroy them that speak lies: Jehovah abhorreth a man of blood and deceit.
DRC5:7
Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: Thou wilt destroy all that speak a lie. The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor.
GNV
Thou shalt destroy them that speake lyes: the Lord will abhorre the bloodie man and deceitfull.
JPS5:7
Thou destroyest them that speak falsehood; the LORD abhorreth the man of blood and of deceit.
LXXE5:7
Thou wilt destroy all that speak falsehood: the Lord abhors the bloody and deceitful man.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC5:7
תְּאַבֵּד֮ דֹּבְרֵ֪י כָ֫זָ֥ב אִישׁ־דָּמִ֥ים וּמִרְמָ֗ה יְתָ֘עֵ֥ב ׀ יְהוָֽה׃KJV:Ps.5.6
LXX-Br5:7
ἀπολεῖς πάντας τοὺς λαλοῦντας τὸ ψεῦδος· ἄνδρα αἱμάτων καὶ δόλιον βδελύσσεται Κύριος.

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Revelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
  • Psalms 55:23But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
  • Isaiah 26:21For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.
  • Revelation 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
  • Psalms 4:2How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah
  • Genesis 34:25–26Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male. They killed Hamor and his son…
  • Romans 1:29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
  • Psalms 43:1Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.
  • Psalms 26:8–10O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides. Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed, in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of…
  • 2 Samuel 16:8The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a…
  • 2 Samuel 20:1Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”
  • Genesis 34:14“We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 5:7 in some Bibles
  • 5:6 in most Bibles

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