Jeremiah 9:8

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

When his speech is charming, don’t believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”

“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his sandals that were on his feet.

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

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

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

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

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

for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

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

Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”

If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,

After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.

Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.

Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?”

However he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place. As many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war: fifty thousand who could command and were not of double heart.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

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

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

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

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

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

whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

“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.

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

They will fall among those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away with all her multitudes.

As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

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

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Then Absalom said, “If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us.” The king said to him, “Why should he go with you?”

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

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

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.

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.

For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”

They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”

“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”

When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth.

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

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

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.