Lexicon :: Strong's H3577 - kāzāḇ

How long, exalted ones,[fn] will my honor be insulted?

How long will you love what is worthless

and pursue a lie?Selah

You destroy those who tell lies;

the LORD abhors violent and treacherous people.

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.

They only plan to bring him down

from his high position.

They take pleasure in lying;

they bless with their mouths,

but they curse inwardly.Selah

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.

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 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.

What is desirable in a person is his fidelity;

better to be a poor person than a liar.

A lying witness will perish,

but the one who listens will speak successfully.

don’t desire his choice food,

for that food is deceptive.

Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me.

Give me neither poverty nor wealth;

feed me with the food I need.

For you said, “We have made a covenant with Death,

and we have an agreement with Sheol;

when the overwhelming catastrophe[fn] passes through,

it will not touch us,

because we have made falsehood our refuge

and have hidden behind treachery.”

“And I will make justice the measuring line

and righteousness the mason’s level.”

Hail will sweep away the false refuge,

and water will flood your hiding place.

“They saw false visions and their divinations were a lie. They claimed, “This is the LORD’s declaration,” when the LORD did not send them, yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.

“You profane me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread; you put those to death who should not die and spare those who should not live, when you lie to my people, who listen to lies.

“While they offer false visions

and lying divinations about you,

the time has come to put you

to the necks of the profane wicked ones;

the day has come

for final punishment.

“Her prophets plaster for them with whitewash by seeing false visions and lying divinations, saying, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken.

“The two kings, whose hearts are bent on evil, will speak lies at the same table but to no avail, for still the end will come at the appointed time.

Woe to them, for they fled from me;

destruction to them, for they rebelled against me!

Though I want to redeem them,

they speak lies against me.

Ephraim chases[fn] the wind

and pursues the east wind.

He continually multiplies lies and violence.

He makes a covenant with Assyria,

and olive oil is carried to Egypt.

The LORD says:

I will not relent from punishing Judah

for three crimes, even four,

because they have rejected the instruction of the LORD

and have not kept his statutes.

The lies that their ancestors followed

have led them astray.

The remnant of Israel will no longer

do wrong or tell lies;

a deceitful tongue will not be found

in their mouths.

They will pasture and lie down,

with nothing to make them afraid.