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

Let them be taken in their pride for the sin of their mouth and the word of their lips, along with the cursing and the lying which they speak.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; the poison of vipers is under their lips. Selah

therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Because they made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and slandered by the people;

Then they said, Come and let us devise schemes against Jeremiah. For the Law shall not perish from the priest, nor wisdom from the wise, nor the Word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.