⁸ In whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.

² Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

⁶ If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.

²⁰ As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.

¹⁶ And he gives to all, small and great, the poor and those who have wealth, the free and those who are not free, a mark on their right hand or on their brows;

¹⁷ So that no man might be able to do trade but he who has the mark, even the name of the beast or the number of his name.

³⁰ And if your right hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.

⁵ They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake.

⁶ Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.

⁷ Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

² For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.

³ Words of hate are round about me; they have made war against me without cause.

²⁶ So he made an oath against them, to put an end to them in the waste land:

⁴ Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)

³ The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

⁴⁰ For lifting up my hand to heaven I say, By my unending life,

²² But Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have taken an oath to the Lord, the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth,