For the wicked and the deceitful have opened their mouth against me. They spoke to me with a lying tongue,
For I was forcibly kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing at all that they should put me in this pit.”
Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose 12,000 men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight.
who devise evil in their heart— every day they stir up wars.
I am as forgotten as a dead man. I have become like a broken vessel.
Adonai, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon You. Let the wicked be ashamed— let them be silent in Sheol.
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit.
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue for only a moment.
A righteous heart thinks before answering, but a wicked mouth blurts out evil things.
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
Beware, everyone, of your neighbor! Don’t even trust a brother. For every brother grabs like Jacob and every neighbor spreads slander.
“You dwell in the midst of deceit. In deceit they refuse to know Me.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
They set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking words against this holy place and the Torah.