Psalms 109:2

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

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”

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

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

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

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

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.

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

In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

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.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

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.

“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.”

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.

“You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

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

This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.

“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.

This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

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

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

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

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

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

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.

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

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

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

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

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

for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

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

A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;

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

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

On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.

Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”

“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

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

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

She is weary with toil; yet her great rust, rust by fire, doesn’t leave her.

But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

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

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

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

Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

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

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

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.

The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

“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.

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.