מִרְמָה

And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.

And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:

And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.

The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.

Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.

Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.

He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;

And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.

Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.

And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.

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.

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.