⁶² The lips of my withstanders, Even their meditation against me all the day.

³ therefore, prophesy, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because, even because, of desolating, And of swallowing you up from round about, For your being a possession to the remnant of the nations, And ye are taken up on the tip of the tongue, And `are' an evil report of the people.

⁷ Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords `are' in their lips, for `Who heareth?'

¹² The sin of their mouth `is' a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.

³ They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder `is' under their lips. Selah.

¹⁸ And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.