Proverbs 23:32

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

He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow will strike him through.

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

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

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.

Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.

It is because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.

They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but Yahweh has not sent them. They have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.

If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;” he would be the prophet of this people.

They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

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.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.

Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.

“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to reverse your captivity, but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.

It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.

What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?

He said: “Yahweh will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, and the top of Carmel will wither.”

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

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.”

Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

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.

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

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

Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.

What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy.”

In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.

“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

How long will the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals and birds are consumed; because they said, “He won’t see our latter end.”

If I go out into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! If I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.’ ”

It will happen, when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “Such as are for death, to death; such as are for the sword, to the sword; such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.” ’

Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in Yahweh’s house.

For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

“He who flees from the terror will fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.

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

Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,

but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

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

For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents; but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.

When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away; and the woman will be a curse among her people.

He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

Ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.

He said, “Throw her down!” So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses. Then he trampled her under foot.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

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

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

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

You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

For Yahweh’s hand will rest in this mountain. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.

The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.

The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.

They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

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

“The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me. He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men. The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a wine press.

Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, “How long will the vision about the continual burnt offering, and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden under foot be?”

As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.

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

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

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.