Psalms 32:9

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

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.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know Yahweh.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.

When they lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

He said, “Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”

He will return the same way that he came, and he will not come to this city,’ says Yahweh.

because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel.

but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

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

I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales. I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

He will return the way that he came, and he won’t come to this city,’ says Yahweh.

Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the Yahweh’s way, nor the law of their God.

“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.

But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.

I will turn you around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.

“For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

“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.”

The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, “The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’

For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.

Who can strip off his outer garment? Who will come within his jaws?

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.