How long will you speak these things, and the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

How long till you put an end to words? Consider, and afterward we will speak.

i1 [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] i0 par How long will You forget me, O Jehovah? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?

As the Mighty God lives, who has taken away my justice, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,

And it came to pass, when she had pressed upon him daily with her words and urged him, so that his soul was vexed to death,

Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am weak; O Jehovah, heal me, for my bones are anxious.

My soul also is exceedingly anxious; but You, O Jehovah, how long?

As with a shattering of my bones, my enemies have reproached me, while they say daily to me, Where is your God?

and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the lustful behavior of the wicked

(for that righteous man, dwelling among them, his righteous soul was tormented from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds);

His flattery has been with forked tongue, and war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Behold, they belch with their mouth; swords are in their lips; for they say, Who hears?

who sharpen their tongue like a sword. They have bent their bows to shoot their arrows; even bitter words,

There are those who speak like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. Thus the tongue is set among our members, defiling the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by Gehenna.

But no man is able to tame the tongue. It is an uncontrollable evil, full of deadly poison.