3 May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue. 4 They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?” 5 “For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
Psalms 12:3–5
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1 Clement 15:4–6
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Psalms 31:17–19
17 O LORD, let me not be ashamed, for I have called on You. Let the wicked be put to shame; let them lie silent in Sheol. 18 May lying lips be silenced— lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt. 19 How great is Your goodness which…
Job 5:14–16
14 They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night. 15 He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful. 16 So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
Psalms 120:1–3
1 A song of ascents. In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me. 2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue. 3 What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?
Psalms 59:6–8
6 They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city. 7 See what they spew from their mouths— sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?” 8 But You, O LORD, laugh at them; You scoff at all the nations.
Psalms 59:11–13
11 Do not kill them, or my people will forget. Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield. 12 By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter. 13 Consume them in wrat…
Job 15:4–6
4 But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him. 5 For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. 6 Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
Psalms 35:24–26
24 Vindicate me by Your righteousness, O LORD my God, and do not let them gloat over me. 25 Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up!” 26 May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may t…
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