“Their throats are an open grave; with their tongues they have used deceit”; “the poison of vipers is under their lips”;
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s; under their lips is the venom of vipers. Selah
The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; he has ceased to be wise and to do good.
For there is no uprightness in their mouth; destruction is in their midst; their throat is an open tomb; they flatter with their tongue.
Your tongue devises destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
My soul is among lions; I lie among the sons of men who are set on fire, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.
Their quiver is as an open sepulcher, they all are mighty men.
Have you not seen a vain vision, and have you not spoken a lying divination when you say, “The Lord says,” yet it is not I who have spoken?
They have all turned aside; together they have become worthless; there is no one who does good, no, not one.”
God forbid! Let God be true, and every man a liar. As it is written: “That You may be justified in Your words, and may prevail in Your judging.”
Their wine is the poison of dragons and the deadly venom of cobras.