Psalms 59:7

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

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.”

Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’ ”

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.

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.

As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness;’ but my hand will not be on you.

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.

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

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

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,

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.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

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

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

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’

“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.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

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.”

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

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

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

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

The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

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

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.

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

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;”

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?

The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account?”

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

They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

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

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

The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

“Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘Has Yahweh cast off the two families which he chose?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.”

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

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