Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

With their

God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.

Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaketh great things;

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath ceased to be wise and to do good.

Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.

And they bend their tongue, as it were their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.

Have ye not seen a false vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, in that ye say, Jehovah saith; albeit I have not spoken?

Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!

The poison

Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of asps.

Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him.

They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders poison is under their lips. Selah

General references

Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.