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

For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

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

Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:

Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.