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.

¹² Her rich men are full of violence, Her inhabitants speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

⁵ For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.

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.

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.

¹² She has wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust doesn't go forth out of her; her rust doesn't [go forth] by fire.

³ My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

¹³ Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

²⁵ Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members one of another.

² through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

¹³ transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

¹⁴ Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.

¹⁵ Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him who there was no justice.

¹⁰ You were wearied with the length of your way; yet you didn't say, It is in vain: you found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren't faint.

¹² The smith [makes] an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.

¹³ The carpenter stretches out a line; he marks it out with a pencil; he shapes it with planes, and he marks it out with the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.

¹⁴ He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest: he plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.

³ Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

¹⁴ Behold, he travails with iniquity; Yes, he has conceived mischief, And brought forth falsehood.

¹⁹ "You give your mouth to evil. You harnesses your tongue for deceit.

³ Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And aim their arrows, deadly words,

³ They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.

¹⁶ For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

¹⁸ Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, And wickedness as with cart rope;

⁶ They help everyone his neighbor; and [every one] says to his brother, Be of good courage.

⁷ So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith, [and] he who smoothes with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fastens it with nails, that is should not be moved.

¹¹ They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.