For there is no stability in their mouth; Their inward part is destruction; Their throat is an open grave; They flatter with their tongue.
“Their throat is an open tomb, with their tongues they have deceived,” “The poison of adders is under their lips,”
They plotted to topple him from his high position; They delight in lies; They bless with their mouth, But in their heart they curse. Selah.
“For her rich men are filled with cruel unrighteousness, and her inhabitants have spoken falsehood, and their tongue is deceit in their mouth.
A man who flatters his neighbour Spreads a net for his own feet.
See, You have desired truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You make me know wisdom.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are like the unseen tombs, and the men walking over them do not know.”
Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
“The heart is crooked above all, and desperately sick – who shall know it?
O Yerushalayim, wash your heart from evil, and be saved. Till when would your wicked thoughts remain within you?
They search out unrighteousnesses, “We have perfected a well searched out plan.” For the inward part of man, and heart, are deep.
Sons of Aḏ
For we never came with a word of flattery, as you know, nor with a cloak for greed – Elohim is witness –
And the Master said to him, “Now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and dish clean, but your inward part is filled with greed and wickedness.
I then proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahawa, to humble ourselves before our Elohim, to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and all our possessions,
Teach me Your way, O יהוה, And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.
You Yourself know my reproach, And my shame and my confusion; My adversaries are all before You.
The path of the righteous is uprightness; O upright One, You weigh the course of the righteous.