⁶² The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

³ therefore prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the nations, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;

⁷ Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, `say they', doth hear?

¹² `For' the sin of their mouth, `and' the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for cursing and lying which they speak.

³ They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders' poison is under their lips. Selah

¹⁸ Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices 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 smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.