'Tongue' in the Bible

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,

Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,

Who said, 'By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?'

He hath not slandered by his tongue, He hath not done to his friend evil; And reproach he hath not lifted up Against his neighbour.

Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws.

Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

And my tongue uttereth Thy righteousness, All the day Thy praise!

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

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.'

Hot is my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.

To the Overseer. -- 'On the Lilies.' -- By sons of Korah. -- An Instruction. -- A song of loves. My heart hath indited a good thing, I am telling my works to a king, My tongue is the pen of a speedy writer.

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

Deliver me from blood, O God, God of my salvation, My tongue singeth of Thy righteousness.

Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.

My soul is in the midst of lions, I lie down among flames -- sons of men, Their teeth are a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.

And they cause him to stumble, Against them is their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.

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

So that thou dashest thy foot in blood, In the blood of enemies -- the tongue of Thy dogs.'

My tongue also all the day uttereth Thy righteousness, Because ashamed -- because confounded, Have been those seeking my evil!

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

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

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!

My tongue doth sing of Thy saying, For all Thy commands are righteous.

O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!

What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue!

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

My tongue doth cleave to my palate, If I do not remember thee, If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy.

For there is not a word in my tongue, Lo, O Jehovah, Thou hast known it all!

They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder is under their lips. Selah.