Psalms 140:9

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

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”

“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.

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

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.

Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”

The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”

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

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

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

Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

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

You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame.

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”

His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”

The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring the children of Israel out from among them.”

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers;

David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’ ”

Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

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

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.

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.

Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will shine.”

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

The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

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

I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I lay my vengeance on them.” ’ ”

therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.” ’

All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”

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

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path.

The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

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

Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

A righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked takes his place.

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

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

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.

The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

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?”

That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

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.

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.

Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

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

but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands.

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

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

He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”