Psalms 140:3

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

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

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

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

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.

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

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

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

“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance.

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

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

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

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.

Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

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.

As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness;’ but my hand will not be on you.

You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

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

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

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

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

“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

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

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

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

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

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

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

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

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

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,

Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,

Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”

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

“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

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.

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

Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

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

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 conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

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

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

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

Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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.

therefore prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;”

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

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

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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

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

Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

“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.

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

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.

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.