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.

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

therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: Because you have been dishonored, and hated by those round about you, that you might be a possession to the remainder of the nations, and you became a byword, and a reproach to the nations.

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.