He will give you a warrior’s sharpened arrows and red-hot coals.
Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies. Nations fall beneath you.
But God will ruin you forever. He will grab you and drag you out of your tent. He will pull your roots out of this world of the living. Selah
My soul is surrounded by lions. I must lie down with man-eating lions. Their teeth are spears and arrows. Their tongues are sharp swords.
See what pours out of their mouths— swords from their lips! ⌞They think,⌟ “Who will hear us?”
He prepares his deadly weapons and turns them into flaming arrows.
A person who despises a neighbor has no sense, but a person who has understanding keeps quiet.
A wicked person earns dishonest wages, but whoever spreads righteousness earns honest pay.
With his talk a godless person can ruin his neighbor, but righteous people are rescued by knowledge.
Lips that lie are disgusting to the Lord, but honest people are his delight.
A worthless person plots trouble, and his speech is like a burning fire.
The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love to talk will have to eat their own words.
The words of a gossip are swallowed greedily, and they go down into a person’s innermost being.
A lying witness will not go unpunished. One who tells lies will not escape.
A lying witness will not go unpunished. One who tells lies will die.
This is what the Lord of Armies says: I will now refine them with fire and test them. What else can I do for my dear people?
But cowardly, unfaithful, and detestable people, murderers, sexual sinners, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will find themselves in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”
