Then Moses said right in front of the LORD, "Look, the Israelis didn't listen to me, so how will Pharaoh? I'm not a persuasive speaker."

Moses said in the presence of the LORD, "Look, I'm not a persuasive speaker, so how will Pharaoh listen to me?"

Because of your rage against me, your complacency has reached my ears. I'll put my hook into your nostrils and my bit into your mouth. Then I'll turn you back on the road by which you came.'

I won't speak lies nor will I utter deceit.

Everyone speaks lies to his neighbor; they speak with flattering lips and hidden motives.

The wicked, however, keep walking around, exalting the vileness of human beings. To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.

LORD, hear my just plea! Pay attention to my cry! Listen to my prayer, since it does not come from lying lips.

Everyone who sees me mocks me; they gape at me with open mouths and shake their heads at me.

Let the lying lips be made still, especially those who speak arrogantly against the righteous with pride and contempt.

From his dwelling place, he looks down on all the inhabitants of the earth.

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted, and he delivers those whose spirit has been crushed.

You are the most handsome of Adam's descendants; grace has anointed your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.

Look what pours out of their mouths! They use their lips like swords, saying "Who will hear us?"

Just as I am satisfied with the choicest of foods, so my lips will praise you joyfully.

Deal kindly with your servant so I may live and keep your word.

Even before I have formed a word with my tongue, you, LORD, know it completely!

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Interlude

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Interlude

Never talk deceptively and don't keep company with people whose speech is corrupt.

What the wise have to say disseminates knowledge, but it's not in the heart of fools to do so.

Kings take pleasure in righteous speech; they treasure a person who speaks what is upright.

A worthless person concocts evil gossip his lips are like a burning fire.

Whoever practices evil pays attention to wicked speech, and the liar listens to malicious talk.

because they plan violence, and they are always talking about trouble.

A kiss on the lips that's what someone who gives an honest answer deserves.

A clay vessel plated with a thin veneer of silver that's what smooth lips with a wicked heart are.

Your lips are like a scarlet thread, and your mouth is lovely. Behind your veil, your temple is like a slice of pomegranate.

Your lips drip honey, my bride; milk and honey are under your tongue. The scent of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

His cheeks are like beds of spices, like towers of perfume. His lips are lilies, dripping with liquid myrrh.

May your mouth be like good wine. May it go down smoothly to my beloved, gliding gently over the lips of the sleeping ones.

"How terrible it will be for me!" I cried, "because I am ruined! I'm a man with unclean lips, and I live among a people with unclean lips! And my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies!"

but with righteousness he will judge the needy, and decide with equity for earth's poor. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and the wicked will be killed with the breath of his lips.

Very well, then, through the mouths of foreigners and foreign languages the LORD will speak to this people

On that day the deaf will hear the words of a scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

Your insolence has reached my ears, so I'll put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I'll make you turn back on the road by which you came.

I've seen his ways, yet I will heal him, and restore for him comfort to him and for those who mourn for him

You are to weep in silence, but you are not to participate in mourning rituals. You are to keep your turban on your head and your sandals on your feet. You are not to cover your mouth or eat what your comforters bring to you."

That's why you will soon be doing what I've just done. You are not to cover your mouth or eat what your comforters bring to you.

Bring a prepared speech with you as you return to the LORD. Say to him: "Take away all our iniquity, and accept what is good. Then we will present the fruit of our lips.

Bring a prepared speech with you as you return to the LORD. Say to him: "Take away all our iniquity, and accept what is good. Then we will present the fruit of our lips.

Those who see visions will be put to shame, and the diviners will be disgraced every one of them they will cover their faces, because there will be no answer from God.'"

"These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

He told them, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites. As it is written, "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

Their throats are open graves. With their tongues they deceive. The venom of poisonous snakes is under their lips.

In the Law it is written, "By means of foreign languages and through the mouths of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me," declares the Lord.

Therefore, through him let us always bring God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of our lips that confess his name.