For the end, [A Psalm], by David the servant of the Lord. The transgressor, that he may sin, says within himself, [that] there is no fear of God before his eyes.

The words of his mouth are transgression and deceit; he is not inclined to understand [how] to do good.

your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have worked deceit.

Sinners have gone astray from the womb; they go astray from the belly; they speak lies.

They only took counsel to set at nought my honor. I ran in thirst; with their mouth they blessed, but with their heart they cursed. Pause.

But the sons of men are vain; the sons of men are false, so as to be deceitful in the balances; they are all alike, [formed] out of vanity.

Alleluia. I will give You thanks, O Lord, with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and [in] the congregation.

His work is [worthy of] thanksgiving and honor; and His righteousness endures forever and ever.

And they have bent their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not faithfulness has prevailed upon the earth; for they have gone on from evil to evil, and have not known Me, says the Lord.

Everyone will mock his friend; they will not speak truth; their tongue has learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity, they ceased not, so as to return.

whereby they have accumulated their ungodly wealth, and they that dwell in the city have uttered falsehoods, and their tongue has been exalted in their mouth?

having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness; they are whisperers,

without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful;

"Their throat is an opened grave; with their tongues they deceived"; " [the] poison of asps is under their lips";

For behold, You love truth; You have manifested to me the secret and hidden things of Your wisdom.

For you work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth; your hands plot unrighteousness.

They only took counsel to set at nought my honor. I ran in thirst; with their mouth they blessed, but with their heart they cursed. Pause.

They have searched out iniquity; they have wearied themselves with searching diligently, a man shall approach and the heart is deep,

Cleanse your heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that you may be saved; how long will your grievous thoughts be within you?

The heart is deep beyond all things, and it constitutes the man, and who can know him?

For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness.

But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but the inside of you is full of greed and evil.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are like unmarked graves, and the men walking over them do not know it."

"Their throat is an opened grave; with their tongues they deceived"; " [the] poison of asps is under their lips";

Everyone has spoken vanity to his neighbor: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart.

Let the Lord destroy all the deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaks great words;

For truly I will not be awed because of man, nor indeed will I be confounded before a mortal.

For I know not how to respect persons: and if otherwise, even the moths would eat me.

He that prepares a net in the way of his own friend, entangles his own feet in it.

For neither were we using flattering speech, as you know, nor covering up greed, God is [our] witness.