Proverbs 26:18

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

For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.

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

who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

“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.

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.

They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”

The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecuted him:

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”

Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.

The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

He did this in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins.

The archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, because I am seriously wounded!”

His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.

“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.

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

But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

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

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

So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.

You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.

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

For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;

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

For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

A false witness will perish. A man who listens speaks to eternity.

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

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

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.

But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them.”

and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.

Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves, walk in the flame of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: you will lie down in sorrow.

“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

I saw when, for this very cause, that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.

“Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh; “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”

“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.

What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has behaved lewdly with many, and the holy flesh has passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.”

“I have forsaken my house. I have cast off my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

for both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says Yahweh.

“ ‘As for you, house of Israel, the Lord Yahweh says: “Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no more profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols.

For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, they have done this in the middle of my house.

Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”

“All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.

But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, “What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!”

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

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.

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

If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Yahweh’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.