They make their tongue sharp as a snake’s, and under their lips is the venom of vipers. Selah
Lamentations 3:62 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The whispers and murmurs of my assailants are against me all day long. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The lips of those that rose up against me, And their device against me all the day. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all day long. American Standard Version (1901) The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. Common English Bible the speech of those who rise up against me, their incessant gossiping about me. Catholic Public Domain Version SIN. The lips of those who rise up against me, and their meditations, are against me all day long. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me and their devices against me all the day. |
They make their tongue sharp as a snake’s, and under their lips is the venom of vipers. Selah
For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies that they utter,
There they are, bellowing with their mouths, with sharp words on their lips, for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”
Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us bring charges against him, and let us not heed any of his words.”
therefore prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God: Because they made you desolate indeed and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and an object of gossip and slander among the people,