⁵ So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

³ They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.

⁴ Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

⁵ They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

⁶ Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.

⁷ Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?

⁸ Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.

¹⁰ They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

⁸ They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

⁹ They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

¹ > Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually.

² Your tongue plots destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

¹⁸ There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, But the tongue of the wise heals.

² The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, But the mouth of fools gush out folly.

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue; Those who love it will eat its fruit.

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 strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

² Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you did set your heart as the heart of God;-

² Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

³ May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, And the tongue that boasts,

⁴ Who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?"

³ For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings, He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.

⁵ A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.

⁶ He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven.

¹⁶ These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

²² Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.

²³ By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field.

²⁴ I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

¹⁴ They tell God, 'Depart from us, For we don't want to know about your ways.

¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

¹⁷ Who said to God, 'Depart from us;' And, 'What can the Almighty do for us?'

¹⁵ Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to you fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]: but if you don't worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?

³⁰ The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

¹⁸ For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

⁹ The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'