Thou lovest all devouring words, O {thou} deceitful tongue. {O thou...: or, and the deceitful tongue}

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, {A proud...: Heb. Haughty eyes}

For I have heard the slander of many: fear {was} on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue {is} but for a moment.

And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. {grievous...: Heb. a hard thing}

Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, {and} from a deceitful tongue.

And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, {and} weary themselves to commit iniquity. {deceive: or, mock}

The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.

And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters {are} good and right; but {there is} no man {deputed} of the king to hear thee. {there...: or, none will hear thee from the king downward}

And they bend their tongues {like} their bow {for} lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, {yet} found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,

Who whet their tongue like a sword, {and} bend {their bows to shoot} their arrows, {even} bitter words:

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison {is} under their lips. Selah.

Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

The proud have forged a lie against me: {but} I will keep thy precepts with {my} whole heart.

Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:

Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords {are} in their lips: for who, {say they}, doth hear?

Wickedness {is} in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand {is} a right hand of falsehood.

All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed {her} up: certainly this {is} the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen {it}.

And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,