For the wicked and the deceitful have opened their mouth against me. They spoke to me with a lying tongue,
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
For the mouths of the wicked and the mouth of deceit are opened against me; they have spoken to me and against me with lying tongues.
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.
because the mouths of wicked liars have opened up against me, talking about me with lying tongues.
The Lord will send forth the scepter of your virtue from Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies.
The Lord will send forth the sceptre of thy power out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thy enemies.
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.