'Tongue' in the Bible
And Moses said to Yahweh, "Please, Lord, I [am] not a man of words, {neither recently nor in the past nor since your speaking} to your servant, because I [am] heavy of mouth and of tongue."
So he brought down the troops to the water, and Yahweh said to Gideon, "You must separate everyone who laps up the water to drink with his tongue like a dog from those {who kneel}."
"The spirit of Yahweh speaks through me, and his word [is] upon my tongue.
From [the] scourge of [the] tongue you shall be hidden, and you shall not be afraid of destruction when it comes.
Is there injustice on my tongue? Or can my palate not discern calamity?
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose [the] tongue of [the] crafty.
"Though wickedness tastes sweet in his mouth, [and] he hides it under his tongue,
He will suck [the] poison of horned vipers; [the] viper's tongue will kill him.
my lips surely will not speak falseness, and my tongue surely will not utter deceit.
[The] voices of nobles were hushed, and their tongue stuck to their palate.
Please look, I open my mouth; my tongue in my mouth speaks.
For there is not [anything] reliable in his mouth; their inner part [is] destruction. Their throat is an open grave; [with] their tongue they speak deceit.
His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil.
May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, [the] tongue speaking great boasts--
[those] who say, "With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips [are] on our side. Who [is] master over us?"
He does not slander with his tongue. He does not harm his friend, nor {bring up} a disgrace against his neighbor.
My strength is dry like a potsherd, and my tongue is sticking [to] my jaws; and you have placed me in [the] dust of death.
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.
Then my tongue will proclaim your righteousness, [and] your praise all day.
[The] mouth of [the] righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
I said, "I will guard my ways {that I may not sin} with my tongue. I will keep a muzzle over my mouth as long as [the] wicked [are] before me."
My heart grew hot inside me; in my sighing a fire burned. [Then] I spoke with my tongue,
My heart is moved [with] a good word; I recite my {compositions} to [the] king. My tongue [is the] pen [of] a skilled scribe.
You give your mouth free rein for evil, and you harness your tongue to deceit.
Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation; [then] my tongue will sing aloud [of] your righteousness.
Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit.
who sharpen their tongue like a sword. They bend [their bow to shoot] their arrows--bitter words,
And they [who] would cause him to stumble, their [own] tongue [will be] against them. All who gaze on them will shake.
I called to him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
My tongue also will speak of your righteousness all the day, because they have been put to shame, because they have been humiliated who seek my harm.
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue roams the earth.
But they enticed him with their mouth and lied to him with their tongue.
for {wicked and deceitful mouths} have opened against me. They speak to me with a lying tongue.
Let my tongue sing [of] your word, because all your commands [are] right.
"Deliver my life, O Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue."
What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you, deceitful tongue?
Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great [things] for these [people]."
Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if do not I exalt Jerusalem above my highest joy.
For [there is] not a word [yet] on my tongue, [but] behold, O Yahweh, you know it completely.
They sharpen their tongue as [sharp as] a snake's; [the] venom of a viper [is] under their lips. Selah
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
[in order] to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of [the] tongue of {an adulteress}.
Choice silver is a tongue of righteousness, a heart of wickedness is {of little worth}.
The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a tongue of perversity will be cut off.
There is one who speaks rashly, like the thrust of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
A lip of truth endures forever, but a tongue of deception lasts only a moment.
The tongue of the wise will dispense knowledge, but the mouth of fools will pour out folly.
Gentleness of tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it [causes] a break in spirit.
To mortals [belong] the plans of the heart, but from Yahweh [comes] the answer of the tongue.
He who does evil listens to lips of wickedness, [and] the liar gives heed to the tongue of mischief.
He who is crooked of heart will not find goodness, and he who is perverse, by his tongue he will fall into calamity.
Death and life [are] in the {power} of the tongue, and those who love her will eat of her fruit.
He who makes treasure by a lying tongue [is a] fleeting vapor [and] seeker of death.
He who guards his mouth and his tongue, he guards his life from danger.
{With patience} a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.
The wind of the north produces rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry faces.
A tongue of deceit hates its victim, and a flattering mouth makes ruin.
He who rebukes a person will afterward find [more] favor than he who flatters [with the] tongue.
She opens her mouth with wisdom, and instruction of kindness [is] upon her tongue.
Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and dry grass sinks down [in the] flame, so their root will become like [the] stench, and their blossom will go up like [the] dust. For they have rejected the instruction of Yahweh of hosts, and they have treated the word of the holy one of Israel with contempt.
And Yahweh will divide the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and he will wave his hand over the river with his scorching wind; and he will strike it into seven streams, and he will {make it passable by foot}.
For he will speak with {stammering} and another tongue to this people,
Look! The name of Yahweh comes from afar, burning [with] his anger and heaviness of cloud. His lips are full [of] indignation, and his tongue [is] like a devouring fire.
You will not see [the] insolent people, [the] people {whose language is too obscure to understand}, [whose] stammering of tongue {cannot be understood}.
Then [the] lame shall leap like the deer, and [the] tongue of [the] dumb shall sing for joy, for waters shall break forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
The poor and the needy [are] seeking water and [there is] none; their tongue is dried up with thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
I have sworn by myself; a word that shall not return has gone forth from my mouth [in] righteousness: 'Every knee shall kneel down to me; every tongue shall swear.'
The Lord Yahweh has given me [the] tongue of pupil, to know how to help [the] weary [with] a word. He awakens {morning by morning}, awakens an ear for me to listen as [do] the pupils.
Every weapon formed against you shall not succeed, and you shall declare guilty every tongue [that] rises against you for judgment. This [is] the inheritance of the servants of Yahweh, and their {legal right} from me," {declares} Yahweh.
At whom do you make fun? At whom do you {open} [your] mouth [and] {stick out} [your] tongue? [Are] you not children of transgression, offspring of deception,
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue speaks wickedness.
And they bend their tongue [like] their bow, [for] falsehood and not truth is superior in the land, for they go forth from evil to evil, and they do not know me," {declares} Yahweh.
Their tongue [is] a murderous arrow, it speaks deceit. With his mouth he speaks peace with his neighbor, but in his inner parts he sets up his ambush.
The tongue of the nursling cleaves to its palate in thirst. Children beg [for] food, {no one lays it out before them}.
And I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silenced, and you will not be a reproving man for them, for they {are a rebellious house}.
They turn, not to the Most High, like a slack bow; their officials will fall by the sword because of the anger of their tongue. This [is] their scorn in the land of Egypt.
Because her rich are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.
The remnant of Israel shall not do wickedness; they shall not speak deception, nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall frighten [them]."