Psalms 36:3

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

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

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.

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

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

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

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

“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

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

On the next day, an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand;

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.

Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,

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

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.

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

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

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,

She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him.

Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul.

Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”

An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand.

He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.

Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?” Saul answered, “I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, by prophets, or by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.”

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

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

My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

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

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

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.

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

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

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

The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.

“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

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.

They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

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

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.”

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

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;

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

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.

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

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

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

“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.”

When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.

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

Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;

She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”

“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

Now Yahweh’s Spirit departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him.

Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”

Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes today. Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.”

For I have kept Yahweh’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes.

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

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

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

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

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

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.

Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.

You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

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

One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.