They are brought to ruin, with their own tongues turned against them; all who see them will wag their heads.
A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the righteous escapes from trouble.
As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their lips overwhelm them!
He said to him, ‘I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”
And all who look at you will shrink from you and say, “Wasted is Nineveh; who will grieve for her?” Where shall I seek comforters for you?
Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?
making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. Everyone who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head.
Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.
All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads;
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.
They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, “Alas! Alas! You great city, you mighty city, Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;
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,
The righteous shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying,
When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before your presence.
The battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers found him, and he was badly wounded by the archers. Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it. And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died with him. Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together. And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. And the Philistines came and lived in them.
And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”
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