whose mouth speaks falsehood, whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.
Help, Adonai! For no one godly exists. For the faithful have vanished from the children of men.
He is feeding on ashes. A deceived heart has led him astray, so he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t what is in my right hand a fraud?”
My enemies speak evil about me: “When will he die and his name perish?”
How long will all of you assault a man, to crush him, like a leaning wall, a fence to be torn down?
And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away! It is better for you that one part of your body should be destroyed, than that your whole body go into Gehenna.
Therefore He swore to them that He would make them fall in the desert,
No, in heart you devise injustice. Your hands weigh out violence on earth.
His mouth is full of cursing, lies and oppression. On his tongue are trouble and iniquity.
“Yes, I lift My hand up to heaven and say, ‘As I Myself live forever,
But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I raise my hand in oath to Adonai, El Elyon, Creator of heaven and earth.