² O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!

¹¹ Violent witnesses rise up, That which I have not known they ask me.

² Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

³ Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah.

⁴ Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

¹ To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, be not silent,

² For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me -- A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!

¹ To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O Jehovah, from an evil man, From one of violence Thou keepest me.

² Who have devised evils in the heart, All the day they assemble `for' wars.

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

²² An abomination to Jehovah `are' lying lips, And stedfast doers `are' his delight.

⁵⁹ And the chief priests, and the elders, and all the council, were seeking false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death,

⁶⁰ and they did not find; and many false witnesses having come near, they did not find; and at last two false witnesses having come near,

⁶¹ said, `This one said, I am able to throw down the sanctuary of God, and after three days to build it.'

⁶² And the chief priest having stood up, said to him, `Nothing thou dost answer! what do these witness against thee?