Lexicon :: Strong's H4820 - mirmâ

Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, because Shechem had defiled and disgraced their sister Dinah.

“They conceive mischief and bring forth wickedness,

And their inmost soul prepares deceit and fraud.”

“If I have walked with falsehood,

Or if my foot has chased after deceit,

You destroy those who tell lies;

The LORD detests and rejects the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

His mouth is full of curses and deceit (fraud) and oppression;

Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness [injustice and sin].

A Prayer of David.

Hear the just (righteous) cause, O LORD; listen to my loud [piercing] cry;

Listen to my prayer, that comes from guileless lips.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart,

Who has not lifted up his soul to what is false,

Nor has sworn [oaths] deceitfully.

Keep your tongue from evil

And your lips from speaking deceit.

For they do not speak peace,

But they devise deceitful words [half-truths and lies] against those who are quiet in the land.

The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful;

He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Those who seek my life lay snares for me,

And those who seek to injure me threaten mischievous things and destruction;

They devise treachery all the day long.

Judge and vindicate me, O God; plead my case against an ungodly nation.

O rescue me from the deceitful and unjust man!

“You give your mouth to evil

And your tongue frames deceit.

You love all words that devour,

O deceitful tongue.

Destruction is within her;

Oppression and deceit do not depart from her streets and market places.

But You, O God, will bring down the wicked to the pit of destruction;

Men of blood and treachery will not live out half their days.

But I will [boldly and unwaveringly] trust in You.

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 and dishonest business practices are extremely offensive to the LORD,

But an accurate scale is His delight.

The thoughts and purposes of the [consistently] righteous are just (honest, reliable),

But the counsels and schemes of the wicked are deceitful.

He who speaks truth [when he testifies] tells what is right,

But a false witness utters deceit [in court].

Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil,

But counselors of peace have joy.

The wisdom of the sensible is to understand his way,

But the foolishness of [shortsighted] fools is deceit.

A truthful witness saves lives,

But he who speaks lies is treacherous.

Differing weights are detestable and offensive to the LORD,

And fraudulent scales are not good.

He who hates, disguises it with his lips,

But he stores up deceit in his heart.

His grave was assigned with the wicked,

But He was with a rich man in His death,

Because He had done no violence,

Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.

‘As a cage is full of birds,

So are their houses full of deceit and treachery;

Therefore they have become influential and rich.

“Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit [oppression upon oppression and deceit upon deceit];

Through deceit they refuse to know (understand) Me,” says the LORD.

“Their tongue is a murderous arrow;

It speaks deceit;

With his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor,

But in his heart he lays traps and waits in ambush for him.

“And through his shrewdness

He will cause deceit to succeed by his hand (influence);

He will magnify himself in his mind,

He will corrupt and destroy many who enjoy a false sense of security.

He will also stand up and oppose the Prince of princes,

But he will be broken, and that by no human hand [but by the hand of God].

Ephraim surrounds Me with lies

And the house of Israel with deceit;

Judah is also unruly against God,

Even against the faithful Holy One.

A merchant, in whose hand are false and fraudulent balances;

He loves to oppress and exploit.

“When will the New Moon [festival] be over

So that we may sell grain,

And the Sabbath ended so that we may open the wheat market,

Making the ephah [measure] smaller and the shekel bigger [that is, selling less for a higher price]

And to cheat by falsifying the scales,

“Can I [be guiltless and] justify deceptive scales

And a bag of dishonest weights?

“On that day I will also punish all those who [fn]leap over the temple threshold,

Who fill their [pagan] lord’s temple with violence and deceit.