Psalms 52:4

“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

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

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

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

“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.

They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

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

Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.

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.

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

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

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.

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

He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven.

she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought a Hebrew in to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.

Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

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

Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?”

His servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against his servant Hezekiah.

Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,

They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

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.

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

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.

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

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

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

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

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.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

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

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.

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me,

Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’ ”

Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

“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.

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

You will mention the message from Yahweh no more: for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies, our God.

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.”

Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god that will deliver you out of my hands?”

He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

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

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

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

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

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.

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.

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.”

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