Psalms 57:4

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

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

You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

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

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;

He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

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.

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

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

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.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.

I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

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

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

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,

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

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.

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.

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom,

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.

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.

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

He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

“The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’

and God repaid all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads; and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came on them.

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

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.

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

Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

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

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

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

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

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.

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

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.

“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.

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”

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.

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

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

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

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.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

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

Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

Yahweh said to Moses, “Put back the rod of Aaron before the covenant, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their complaining against me, that they not die.”

but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from the house of Millo and devour Abimelech.”

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

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

Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

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.

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

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

The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.

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

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

As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

The young lions have roared at him and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, will ask you, ‘Have you come to take the plunder? Have you assembled your company to take the prey, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’ ” ’

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.

But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.

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.

They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.

Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.