Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.
Parallel translations
- KJV Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
- BSB Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.
- NKJV Destruction is in its midst; Oppression and deceit do not depart from its streets.
- NASB Destruction is in her midst; Oppression and deceit do not depart from her streets.
- NLT Everything is falling apart; threats and cheating are rampant in the streets.
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Cross-references · 9
- Ps 5:9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
- Isa 59:7Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. desolation and destruction are in their paths.
- Acts 7:51–52“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
- Jer 5:26–27For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
- Ps 10:7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
- Jer 9:3–5“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood; and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.
- Ps 109:2–3for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
- Matt 26:4They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
- Ezek 22:1–12Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
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