For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart is mischiefs, An open grave is their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.

Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue is perverseness and iniquity,

Thou hast proved my heart, Thou hast inspected by night, Thou hast tried me, Thou findest nothing; My thoughts pass not over my mouth.

Gone up hath smoke by His nostrils, And fire from His mouth consumeth, Coals have been kindled by it.

Let the sayings of my mouth, And the meditation of my heart, Be for a pleasing thing before Thee, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer!

They have opened against me their mouth, A lion tearing and roaring.

Save me from the mouth of a lion: -- And -- from the horns of the high places Thou hast answered me!

By the word of Jehovah The heavens have been made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host.

By David, in his changing his behaviour before Abimelech, and he driveth him away, and he goeth. I do bless Jehovah at all times, Continually His praise is in my mouth.

And they enlarge against me their mouth, They said, 'Aha, aha, our eye hath seen.'

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently -- to do good.

The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment.

And I, as deaf, hear not. And as a dumb one who openeth not his mouth.

Yea, I am as a man who heareth not, And in his mouth are no reproofs.

To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. I have said, 'I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked is before me.'

I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou -- Thou hast done it.

And He putteth in my mouth a new song, 'Praise to our God.' Many do see and fear, and trust in Jehovah.

My mouth speaketh wise things, And the meditations of my heart are things of understanding.

And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee -- to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?

Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,

O Lord, my lips thou dost open, And my mouth declareth Thy praise.

O God, hear my prayer, Give ear to the sayings of my mouth,

Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart is war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they are drawn swords.

O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.

The sin of their mouth is a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.

Only -- from his excellency They have consulted to drive away, They enjoy a lie, with their mouth they bless, And with their heart revile. Selah.

As with milk and fatness is my soul satisfied, And with singing lips doth my mouth praise.

And the king doth rejoice in God, Boast himself doth every one swearing by Him, But stopped is the mouth of those speaking lies!

For opened were my lips, And my mouth spake in my distress:

Unto Him with my mouth I have called, And exaltation is under my tongue.

Let not a flood of waters overflow me, Nor let the deep swallow me up, Nor let the pit shut her mouth upon me.

Filled is my mouth with Thy praise, All the day with Thy beauty.

My mouth recounteth Thy righteousness, All the day Thy salvation, For I have not known the numbers.

They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

An Instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law, Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth.

I open with a simile my mouth, I bring forth hidden things of old,

They have not been estranged from their desire, Yet is their food in their mouth,

And -- they deceive Him with their mouth, And with their tongue do lie to Him,

I am Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it.

An instruction, by Ethan the Ezrahite. Of the kind acts of Jehovah, to the age I sing, To all generations I make known Thy faithfulness with my mouth,

Remember His wonders that He did, His signs and the judgments of His mouth.

The upright do see and rejoice, And all perversity hath shut her mouth.

For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me -- A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!

I thank Jehovah greatly with my mouth, And in the midst of many I praise Him,

A mouth they have, and they speak not, Eyes they have, and they see not,

With my lips I have recounted All the judgments of Thy mouth.

And Thou takest not utterly away From my mouth the word of truth, Because for Thy judgment I have hoped.

Better to me is the law of Thy mouth Than thousands of gold and silver!

According to Thy kindness quicken Thou me, And I keep the testimony of Thy mouth!

How sweet to my palate hath been Thy saying, Above honey to my mouth.

Free-will-offerings of my mouth, Accept, I pray Thee, O Jehovah, And Thy judgments teach Thou me.

My mouth I have opened, yea, I pant, For, for Thy commands I have longed.

Then filled with laughter is our mouth, And our tongue with singing, Then do they say among nations, 'Jehovah did great things with these.'

A mouth they have, and they speak not, Eyes they have, and they see not,

Ears they have, and they give not ear, Nose -- there is no breath in their mouth!

O Jehovah, all kings of earth confess Thee, When they have heard the sayings of Thy mouth.

Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.

Because their mouth hath spoken vanity, And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Free me, and deliver me From the hand of sons of a stranger, Because their mouth hath spoken vanity, And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood,

The praise of Jehovah my mouth speaketh, And all flesh doth bless His holy name, To the age and for ever!