Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.
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Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.
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Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
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(55-12) Wickedness is in the midst thereof; oppression and guile depart not from her broad place.
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Passages linked to Psalms 55:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 5:9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
- Isaiah 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
- Psalms 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
- Jeremiah 5:26-27 For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
- Acts 7:51-52 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do. Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
- Psalms 109:2-3 for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue. They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
- Jeremiah 9:3-5 “They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh. “Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer. Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.
- Ezekiel 22:1-12 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, “You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations. You shall say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A city that sheds blood within herself, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her! You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made! You have caused your days to draw near, and have come even to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries. Those who are near, and those who are far from you, will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult. “ ‘ “Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood. In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow. You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths. Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you. In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity. One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter. In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
- Matthew 26:4 They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 55:11 Wickedness [is] in the midst thereof: deceit…
Psa 55:11 Wickedness [is] in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Ver. 11. Wickedness is in the midst thereof] As if it were no longer, as once, Theopolis, but Poneropolls, for all kind of naughtiness there.
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Deceit and guile depart not from her streets] The Vulgate hath it, Usura et dolus, Usury and guile; and Theodoret’s note here is, Notandum est, non mode Novi Testamenti perfectionem, sed Legis statum faenus damnare, that usury is condemned in both Old and New Testament.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The places of buying and selling, and of public…
The places of buying and selling, and of public and common conversation. So their sins were both universal and impudent.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For it was not an enemy that reproached me,....…
For it was not an enemy that reproached me,.... An open and avowed one; a Moabite or a Philistine; such an one as Goliath, who cursed him by his gods; but one of his own country, city, court, and family, who pretended to be a friend; his son Absalom, according to Arama: so it was not one of the Scribes and Pharisees, the sworn enemies of Christ, who rejected him as the Messiah, and would not have him to reign over them, that reproached him, but one of his own apostles;
then I could have borne it; reproach from an enemy is to be expected, and may be patiently endured; and, when it is for righteousness' sake, should be accounted an happiness, and rejoiced at; but the reproaches of one that has been thought to be a friend are very cutting, wounding, heartbreaking, and intolerable, Psa 69:7; the calumnies and reproaches of the Scribes and Pharisees were borne by Christ with great patience, and were answered with great calmness and mildness, Mat 11:19. Or, "I would have lifted up" (t); that is, my hand, and defended myself; I should have been upon my guard, ready to receive the blow, or to have put it off, or repelled it;
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neither was it he that hated me: openly, but secretly in his heart;
that did magnify himself against me; made himself a great man, and set himself at the head of the conspiracy and opposition against him, and spoke great swelling words, in way of raillery and reproach;
then I would have hid myself from him; as David did from Saul, when he became his enemy, Sa1 20:24; and as Christ from the Jews, Joh 8:59; but as for Judas, he knew the place he resorted to; and therefore easily found him, Joh 18:2; the sense may be, that he would have shunned his company, refused conversation with him; much less would he have admitted him to his privy councils, by which means he knew all his affairs, and there was no hiding and concealing things from him.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Streets - The places of buying and selling, and…
Streets - The places of buying and selling, and of public commerce.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Wickedness is in the midst thereof - That is,…
Wickedness is in the midst thereof - That is, the wickedness connected with rebellion and revolt.
Deceit and guile depart not from her streets - They are everywhere. They are found in every street and alley. They pervade all classes of the people. The word rendered “deceit” means rather “oppression.” This was connected with “guile,” or with “deceit.” That is, wrong would be everywhere committed, and the perpetration of those wrongs would be connected with false representations, and false pretences - a state of things that might be expected in the unnatural rebellion under Absalom.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Wickedness--literally, "Mischief," evils resulting from others (Psa 5:9; Psa…
Wickedness--literally, "Mischief," evils resulting from others (Psa 5:9; Psa 52:2, Psa 52:7).
streets--or literally, "wide places," markets, courts of justice, and any public place.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11. Wickedness… deceit and guile—Rampant lust, perfidy, and craft…
11. Wickedness… deceit and guile—Rampant lust, perfidy, and craft everywhere prevailed.
Depart not from her streets—It is better to understand רחב, (rehhob,) here translated street, to signify market place, open space, public square, or broad way before the gates, where courts were held, as in 2Ch_32:6; Ezr_10:9; Neh_8:1; Neh_8:3; Neh_8:16. In Jer_5:1, it is translated broad places; in our English Bible, and in Neh_2:4, broad ways. In these open courts of the city, where justice was usually dispensed, wickedness, extortion, and deceit, prevailed. Compare Psa_9:14
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. Wickedness] The same word as in Psa_52:2; very…
11. Wickedness] The same word as in Psa_52:2; very wickedness or destruction. deceit] R.V. oppression, or, marg., fraud.
her streets] Lit., broad place: the open space inside the gates, where justice was administered and business transacted. Everywhere throughout the city, in the most public places of concourse, every form of evil and injustice is rampant, without check or intermission. The whole city lies at their mercy. Cp. the catalogue of vices in Psa_10:7 : “His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (11) Deceit.—Rather, oppression, or violence.
(11) Deceit.—Rather, oppression, or violence.
Streets.—Rather, squares, the open space at the
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gate of an Oriental city where public business was conducted. It is a miserable picture of mis-government; in the very seat of justice is nothing but oppression and guile.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Wickedness is in the midst thereof; deceit and guile…
Wickedness is in the midst thereof; deceit and guile depart not from her streets; literally, out of her street (rehob) open square, where justice ought to have been administered "(Kay), "adjoining the vaulted passage of the city gate" (Cheyne); comp. Job_29:7.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 11. Wickedness is in the midst thereof. The…
Ver. 11. Wickedness is in the midst thereof. The very heart of the city was base. In her places of authority crime went hand in hand with calamity. All the wilder and more wicked elements were uppermost; the canaille were commanders; the scum floated uppermost; justice was at a discount; the population was utterly demoralized; prosperity had vanished and order with it.
Deceit and guile depart not from her streets. In all the places of concourse crafty tongues were busy persuading the people with cozening phrases. Crafty demagogues led the people by the nose. Their good king was defamed in all ways, and when they saw him go away, they fell to reviling the governors of their own choosing. The forum was the fortress of fraud, the congress was the convention of cunning. Alas, poor Jerusalem, to be thus the victim of sin and shame! Virtue reviled and vice regnant! Her solemn assemblies broken up, her priests fled, her king banished, and troops of reckless villains parading her streets, sunning themselves on her walls, and vomiting their blasphemies in her sacred shrines. Here was cause enough for the sorrow which so plaintively utters itself in these verses.
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