Psa 52:2-3, 57:4, 59:7, 64:3-4, Pro 12:18, Isa 59:3-5, 13, Jer 9:3, 5 | ESV | STEP | Your tongue plots destruction , like a sharp razor , you worker of deceit .

Psalms 52:2-3

2 Your ^atongue plots destruction,
like ^ba sharp razor, you ^cworker of deceit.
3 You love evil more than good,
and ^dlying more than speaking what is right. Selah

Psalms 57:4

4 My soul is in the midst of ^elions;
I lie down amid fiery beasts—
the children of man, whose ^fteeth are spears and arrows,
whose ^gtongues are sharp swords.

Psalms 59:7

7 There they are, ^hbellowing with their mouths
with ⁱswords in their lips—
for ^j“Who,” they think, ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks they think} “will hear us?”

Psalms 64:3-4

3 who ^lwhet their tongues like swords,
who ^maim bitter words like arrows,
4 shooting from ⁿambush at the blameless,
shooting at him suddenly and ^owithout fear.

Proverbs 12:18

18 ^pThere is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts,
but the tongue of the wise brings ^qhealing.

Isaiah 59:3-5

3 ^rFor your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
your tongue mutters wickedness.
4 ^sNo one enters suit justly;
no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
^tthey conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
5 They hatch adders’ eggs;
they weave the spider’s web;
he who eats their eggs dies,
and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.

Isaiah 59:13

13 transgressing, and denying the Lord,
and turning back from following our God,
^uspeaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

Jeremiah 9:3

3 ^vThey bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong} in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
^xand they do not know me, declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:5

5 Everyone deceives his neighbor,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
they weary themselves committing iniquity.