Deuteronomy 32:33

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

Therefore Yahweh of Armies says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink poisoned water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.

If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.

Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let’s go into the fortified cities!’

Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, we said, ‘Come! Let’s go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we will dwell at Jerusalem.’ ”

Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.

lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.”

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.

Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.

the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.

Haven’t you seen a false vision, and haven’t you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but I have not spoken?”

they gave him sour wine to drink mixed with gall. When he had tasted it, he would not drink.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,

Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” Aaron held his peace.

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter.

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?

If we say, ‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we will die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let’s surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die.”

yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

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 sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.

“Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no longer be called the mistress of kingdoms.

transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.

“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.

“For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you,” says Yahweh.

“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.

Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Yahweh; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you.

when the king of Babylon’s army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these alone remained of the cities of Judah as fortified cities.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’

Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”

“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and it will also be on Judah in the siege against Jerusalem.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one accord.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven.