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

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

⁷ Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"

¹² For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, Let them be caught in their pride, For the curses and lies which they utter.

³ They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's 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 strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.