They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.


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Ezekiel 22 27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
Job 15 35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
Proverbs 29 12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
Psalms 73 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
Isaiah 40 23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Hosea 9 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
Hosea 8 4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
Isaiah 1 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Job 12 21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
Job 12 19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
Revelation 9 19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
Psalms 94 5 They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
Proverbs 4 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Habakkuk 1 10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
Amos 3 10 For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Psalms 35 20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
Psalms 55 11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Jude 1 10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
Proverbs 24 2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Jeremiah 10 15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Psalms 5 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Isaiah 19 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
2 Corinthians 6 8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
Psalms 78 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Jeremiah 51 18 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Proverbs 2 14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Psalms 149 8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
Psalms 12 8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
Psalms 64 5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
Hosea 4 18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
Proverbs 16 12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
Isaiah 59 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
2 Peter 2 12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
Proverbs 29 2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Jeremiah 18 16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
Romans 3 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
Jeremiah 9 3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
Proverbs 12 20 Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
Mark 12 40 Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
Micah 7 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
Psalms 106 27 To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
Psalms 106 36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
Jeremiah 5 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
Micah 6 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
2 Timothy 3 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Isaiah 41 29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Malachi 1 14 But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.
Proverbs 28 2 For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.
Hosea 7 16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
Jeremiah 5 28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.