Let the deceitful lips become dumb, which speak iniquity against the righteous with pride and scorn.

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

[For] the sin of their mouth, [and] the word of their lips, let them be even taken in their pride.

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

to shoot in secret at the blameless; they will shoot him suddenly, and will not fear.

They have taken counsel and spoken in wickedness; they have uttered unrighteousness loftily.

They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has gone through upon the earth.

They have sharpened their tongue as [the tongue] of a serpent; the poison of asps is under their lips. Pause.

A wicked generation have swords for teeth and jaw-teeth as knives, so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth, and the poor of them from among men.

Then they said, Come, and let us devise a plan against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us attack him with the tongue, and we will hear all his words.

But the Pharisees, having heard, said, "This [Man] does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, ruler of the demons."

Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints,

to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly among them about all their ungodly deeds which they have committed impiously, and about all the harsh [words] which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him."

While the ungodly one acts proudly, the poor is hotly pursued; [the wicked] are taken in the crafty counsels which they imagine.

The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after [Him]; God is not before him.

For he has said in his heart, I shall not be moved, [continuing] without adversity from generation to generation.

For the end, [A Psalm] of instruction by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has gone to the house of Abimelech. Why do you, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in your mischief? All the day

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoils; I will satisfy my soul, I will destroy with my sword, my hand shall have dominion.

You sent forth Your wind, the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty water.

Yet [such a man] says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know Your ways.

What is the Mighty One, that we should serve Him? And what profit is there that we should approach Him?

For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of [my] understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength.

Shall the ax glorify itself without him that chops with it? Or shall the saw lift itself up without him that uses it, as if one should lift a rod or staff? But it shall not be so;

For you have reproached the Lord by messengers; for you have said, With the multitude of chariots have I ascended to the height of mountains, and to the sides of Lebanon, and I have cropped the height of his cedars and the beauty of his cypresses, and I entered into the height of the forest region;

and I have made a bridge, and dried up the waters, and every pool of water.

I noticed his horns, and behold, another one came up in the midst of them, a little horn, and before it three of the former horns were rooted out. And behold, [there were] eyes as the eyes of a man in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.

I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which that horn spoke, until the wild beast was slain and destroyed, and his body given to be burned with fire.

And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change times and law. And [power] shall be given into his hand for a time, times and half a time.

And [this shall be] until the Chief Captain has delivered the captivity: and by reason of [the horn] the sacrifice was disturbed, and he prospered; and the holy place shall be made desolate.

And he shall do according to his will, and the king shall exalt and magnify himself against every god, and shall speak great swelling words, and shall prosper until the indignation shall be accomplished; for it is coming to an end.

And he shall not regard any gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, neither shall he regard any deity: for he shall magnify himself above all.

And a mouth was given to him speaking great things and blasphemy, and authority was given to him to make war for forty-two months.

Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, and His dwelling, and those who dwell in heaven.