“Their throats are an open grave; with their tongues they have used deceit”; “the poison of vipers is under their lips”;
For there is no uprightness in their mouth; destruction is in their midst; their throat is an open tomb; they flatter with their tongue.
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s; under their lips is the venom of vipers. Selah
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.
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?
For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.
Your tongue devises destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
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 quiver is as an open sepulcher, they all are mighty men.
The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; he has ceased to be wise and to do good.
Their wine is the poison of dragons and the deadly venom of cobras.
They have all turned aside; together they have become worthless; there is no one who does good, no, not one.”