And Pharaoh said, Who is He that I should listen to His voice, so that I should send away the children of Israel? I do not know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.

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.

Whom have you reproached, and whom have you reviled? And against whom have you lifted up your voice, and raised your eyes on high? [Is it] [not] against the Holy One of Israel?

I have refreshed [myself], and have drunk strange waters, and I have dried up with the sole of my foot all the rivers of the fortified places.

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?

Who say, What will the Lord do to us? Or what will the Almighty bring upon us?

Because the sinner praises himself for the desires of his heart; and the unjust one blesses himself.

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

who have said, We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own: who is Lord of us?

They have enclosed [themselves with] their own fat; their mouths have spoken pride.

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

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

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.

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

The tongue of the wise knows what is good, but the mouth of the foolish speaks evil things.

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

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.

Therefore thus says the Lord, Behold, I will try them with fire, and prove them; for I will do [thus] because of the wickedness of the daughter of My people.

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.

And you, son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord: Because your heart has been exalted, and you have said, I am God, I have inhabited the dwelling of God in the heart of the sea; yet you are a man and not God, though you have set your heart as the heart of God.

and say, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you O Pharaoh, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers, that says, The rivers are mine, and I made them.

Now then, if you are ready, whenever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, pipe, harp, sackbut, psaltery, harmony, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the golden image which I have made, [fine;] but if you will not worship, in the same hour you shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace; and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand?

the king answered and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power, for the honor of my glory?

For when they speak haughty [words] of emptiness, they entice through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, those who are escaping from those who are living in error,

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaks puffed up words, flattering people to gain advantage.

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.