Psalms 10:7
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His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
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Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.
“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,
Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
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.
The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.
They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.