For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity.
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
and they set up false witnesses who said, "This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law,
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Let the lying lips be mute, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.
For I hear the whispering of many -- terror on every side! -- as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.
Moreover, Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight.
They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong[3] in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the LORD.
The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.
They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah
For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit."