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.

Their tongue is a wounding arrow; the words of their mouth are deceitful. [One] speaks peaceably to his neighbor, but in himself retains enmity.

We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God; we have spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words.

And truth has been taken away, and they have turned aside [their] mind from understanding. And the Lord saw it, and it pleased Him not that there was no judgment.

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?

Therefore, having put off falsehood, "Let each one speak truth with his neighbor," for we are members of one another.

Be not a speaker of many words, for is there none to answer you?

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.

You are guilty by the words of your mouth, neither have you discerned the words of the Mighty.

Your mouth has multiplied wickedness, and your tongue has framed deceit.

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

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

speaking lies in hypocrisy, having been seared with a hot iron [as to] their own conscience,

And they struck the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, and they were wearied with seeking the door.

Behold, [the wicked] has travailed with unrighteousness; he has conceived trouble, and has brought forth iniquity.

For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not.

Woe [to them] that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer's yoke;

everyone judging for his neighbor and [that] to assist his brother; and one will say,

The artificer has become strong, and the coppersmith that smites with the hammer, [and] forges also; sometimes he will say, It is a piece well joined; they have fastened them with nails; they will fix them, and they shall not be moved.

For the artificer sharpens the iron; he fashions [the idol] with an ax, and fixes it with an awl, and fashions it with the strength of his arm; and he will be hungry and weak, and will drink no water.

He cuts wood out of the forest, which the Lord planted, [even] a pine tree, and the rain made it grow,

You have wearied yourself with your many ways; yet you said not, I will cease to strengthen myself; for you have done these things; therefore you have not supplicated Me.

and her abundant scum may not come forth from her.

O My people, what have I done to you? Or wherein have I grieved you? Or wherein have I troubled you? Answer Me.

Are not these things of the Lord Almighty? Surely many people have been exhausted in the fire, and many nations have fainted.