The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all the day long.
therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: Precisely because they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people,
They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah
For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies that they utter,
There they are, bellowing with their mouths with swords in their lips— for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”
Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”
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