Psalms 58:4

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

Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.

My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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

they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

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.

David said, “Yahweh who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go! Yahweh will be with you.”

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

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.

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

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you.

Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

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

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.

The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?’ ”

In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

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

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

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

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

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.

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.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.

Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.

To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

“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.

the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.

Haven’t you seen a false vision, and haven’t you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but I have not spoken?”

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.

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

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

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,

Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.

yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.

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

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

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.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

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

The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.

“For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you,” says Yahweh.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one accord.

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

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