For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
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,
Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity.
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you, you deceitful tongue?
Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death, but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to rebuild it in three days.’” And the high priest stood up and said, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?”
They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows, shooting from ambush at the blameless, shooting at him suddenly and without fear.
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.
Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but there is no man designated by the king to hear you.” Then Absalom would say, “Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.” And whenever a man came near to pay homage to him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him. Thus Absalom did to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. And at the end of four years Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the Lord, in Hebron.
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
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