Quotes about Tongues
So Gideon brought the people down to the water, and the LORD said to him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues like a dog from those who kneel to drink.”
- Judges 7:5
For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
- Psalm 5:9
They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”
- Psalm 12:4
who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
- Psalm 64:3
They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.
- Psalm 73:9
For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.
- Psalm 109:2
They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
- Psalm 140:3
Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people
- Isaiah 28:11
“And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory.
- Isaiah 66:18
“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.
- Jeremiah 9:3
Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.
- Jeremiah 9:8
“Yes,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who wag their own tongues and proclaim, ‘The LORD declares it.’”
- Jeremiah 23:31