Lexicon :: Strong's G5571 - pseudēs

Do not give false testimony against your neighbor.

“Do not give dishonest testimony against your neighbor.

Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and told me lies! Won’t you please tell me how you can be tied up? ”

Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me all along and told me lies! Tell me how you can be tied up.”

He told her, “If you weave the seven braids on my head into the fabric on a loom ​— ​”[fn]

“The LORD asked him, ‘How? ’

“He said, ‘I will go and become a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’

“Then he said, ‘You will certainly entice him and prevail. Go and do that.’

“So he said, ‘I will go and become a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’

“Then he said, ‘You will entice him and also prevail. Go and do that.’

They proceeded to take away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.

If this is not true, then who can prove me a liar

and show that my speech is worthless?

The horse is a false hope for safety;

it provides no escape by its great power.

How happy is anyone

who has put his trust in the LORD

and has not turned to the proud

or to those who run after lies!

The wicked go astray from the womb;

liars wander about from birth.

For the sin of their mouths and the words of their lips,

let them be caught in their pride.

They utter curses and lies.

Common people are only a vapor;

important people, an illusion.

Together on a scale,

they weigh less than[fn] a vapor.

a lying witness who gives false testimony,

and one who stirs up trouble among brothers.

“For my mouth tells the truth,

and wickedness is detestable to my lips.

Lying lips are detestable to the LORD,

but faithful people are his delight.

An honest witness does not deceive,

but a dishonest witness utters lies.

A truthful witness rescues lives,

but one who utters lies is deceitful.

A wicked person listens to malicious talk;[fn]

a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.

Eloquent words are not appropriate on a fool’s lips;

how much worse are lies for a ruler.

A false witness will not go unpunished,

and one who utters lies will not escape.

A false witness will not go unpunished,

and one who utters lies perishes.

Making a fortune through a lying tongue

is a vanishing mist,[fn] a pursuit of death.[fn][fn]

A lying witness will perish,

but the one who listens will speak successfully.

don’t desire his choice food,

for that food is deceptive.

for their hearts plan violence,

and their words stir up trouble.

Don’t testify against your neighbor without cause.

Don’t deceive with your lips.

The one who boasts about a gift that does not exist

is like clouds and wind without rain.

A person giving false testimony against his neighbor

is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

A lying tongue hates those it crushes,

and a flattering mouth causes ruin.

Better the poor person who lives with integrity

than the rich one who distorts right and wrong.[fn]

Don’t add to his words,

or he will rebuke you, and you will be proved a liar.

Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me.

Give me neither poverty nor wealth;

feed me with the food I need.

Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting,

but a woman who fears the LORD will be praised.

They are a rebellious people,

deceptive children,

children who do not want to listen to the LORD’s instruction.

When they say, “As the LORD lives,”

they are swearing falsely.

For this is what the LORD of Armies says:

Cut down the trees;

raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem.

This city must be punished.

There is nothing but oppression within her.

For from the least to the greatest of them,

everyone is making profit dishonestly.

From prophet to priest,

everyone deals falsely.

“Do not trust deceitful words, chanting, “This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.”

But look, you keep trusting in deceitful words that cannot help.

“How can you claim, ‘We are wise;

the law of the LORD is with us’?

In fact, the lying pen of scribes

has produced falsehood.

Each one betrays his friend;

no one tells the truth.

They have taught their tongues to speak lies;

they wear themselves out doing wrong.

Everyone is stupid and ignorant.

Every goldsmith is put to shame

by his carved image,

for his cast images are a lie;

there is no breath in them.

This is your lot,

what I have decreed for you —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

because you have forgotten me

and trusted in lies.

But the LORD said to me, “These prophets are prophesying a lie in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, worthless divination, the deceit of their own minds.

Why has my pain become unending,

my wound incurable,

refusing to be healed?

You truly have become like a mirage to me —

water that is not reliable.