A warrior's sharp arrows, with glowing coals of the broom tree!
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.
A worthless man plots evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.
Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; the peoples fall under you.
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.
The wicked earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward.
Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.
With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.
As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their lips overwhelm them! Let burning coals fall upon them! Let them be cast into fire, into miry pits, no more to rise! Let not the slanderer be established in the land; let evil hunt down the violent man speedily!
There they are, bellowing with their mouths with swords in their lips— for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”
My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts— the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.
“‘And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on them; they shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured by plague and poisonous pestilence; I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with the venom of things that crawl in the dust.
The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.
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