Psalms 64:8

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!’ For she is made desolate in one hour.

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

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

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

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

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense.

“My people, go away from the middle of her, and each of you save yourselves from Yahweh’s fierce anger.

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

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.

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.

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

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

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

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you?

As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so the house of Israel is ashamed: they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,

For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn you? Who will come to ask of your welfare?

Because of Yahweh’s wrath she won’t be inhabited, but she will be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

The merchants among the peoples hiss at you. You have become a terror, and you will be no more.” ’ ”

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.

When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies that dwell in it will be astonished at it.

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

Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land, and to this house?’

“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.”

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

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

Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth: say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Go out from among her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.

“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.

I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and my wrath has been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you, when you enter into Egypt; and you will be an object of horror, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you will see this place no more.’

in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to live; that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

For I have sworn by myself,” says Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.”

“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.

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

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.”

He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.

All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

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

The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.

Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.

Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

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

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

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

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

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

this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.

For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”

But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

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.

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

All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”

Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

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.

He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

Like the legs of the lame that hang loose, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

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

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.

Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.’