For they do not speak the truth; their stomachs are like the place of destruction, their throats like an open grave, their tongues like a steep slope leading into it.

All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave.

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.

With their

Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: "so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged."

For they do not speak the truth; their stomachs are like the place of destruction, their throats like an open grave, their tongues like a steep slope leading into it.

May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts!

The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful; he does not care about doing what is wise and right.

Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver.

I am surrounded by lions; I lie down among those who want to devour me; men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are a sharp sword.

For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin; your lips speak lies, your tongue utters malicious words.

The Lord says, "These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows. Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. They have become powerful in the land, but they have not done so by honest means. Indeed, they do one evil thing after another and do not pay attention to me.

Have you not seen a false vision and announced a lying omen when you say, "the Lord declares," although I myself never spoke?

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.

The poison

Their wine is snakes' poison, the deadly venom of cobras.

his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.

Their tongues wound like a serpent; a viper's venom is behind their lips. (Selah)

General references

All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave.