Psalms 59:12

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

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.

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

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

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

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

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”

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

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

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

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

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

Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.

It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.

Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”

“Hear, our God; for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.

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

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

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

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

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

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

“Don’t be afraid, for you will not be ashamed. Don’t be confounded, for you will not be disappointed. For you will forget the shame of your youth. You will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

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.

You show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is your name:

As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder on the path toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

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

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.

saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”

saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

“ ‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.

David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’ ”

The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return your wickedness on your own head.

Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war: fifty thousand who could command and were not of double heart.

“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

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

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

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.

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.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

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

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.

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom,

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

therefore prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;”

As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up.” They were exceedingly sorry.

and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”

He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again.”

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

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.”

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

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

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

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

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

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

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

you are trapped by the words of your mouth; you are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in my holy mountain.

All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”

saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’

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

“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

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