How long will you speak these things, [how long shall] the breath of your mouth be abundant in words?

How long will you continue? Gain understanding, and afterward we also may speak.

For the end, A Psalm of David. How long, O Lord, will You forget me? Forever? How long will You turn away Your face from me?

And they cried [with] a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, do You not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?"

As God lives, who has thus judged me; and the Almighty, who has embittered my soul;

And it came to pass as she pressed him sore with her words continually, and pestered him, that his spirit failed almost to death.

Pity me, O Lord; for I am weak: heal me, O Lord; for my bones are vexed.

My soul also is grievously vexed: but You, O Lord, how long?

While my bones were breaking, they that afflicted me reproached me; while they said to me daily, Where is your God?

and He rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the indecent conduct of lawless [men]

(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, tormented his righteous soul by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)--

They were scattered at the anger of His countenance, and his heart drew near to them. His words were smoother than oil, yet they are darts.

Behold, they shall utter a voice with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips; for who, [they say], has heard?

who have sharpened their tongues as a sword; they have bent their bow maliciously;

Some wound as they speak, like swords, but the tongues of the wise heal.

Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and they that rule it shall eat the fruits thereof.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. Thus the tongue is set among our members, as that which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

But no man can tame the tongue. [It] is an unrestrainable evil, full of deadly poison.