Psalm 120:4

A Cry For Truth And Peace

³ What will He give you,
and what will He do to you,
you deceitful tongue?
⁴ A warrior’s sharp arrows
with burning charcoal! ⁵ What misery that I have stayed in Meshech,
that I have lived among the tents of Kedar!

Burning Coals

Mighty One

Psalm 45:5

Your arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s enemies;
the peoples fall under you.

Deuteronomy 32:23-24

“I will pile disasters on them;
I will use up My arrows against them.

Psalm 7:13

He has prepared His deadly weapons;
He tips His arrows with fire.

Psalm 52:5

This is why God will bring you down forever.
He will take you, ripping you out of your tent;
He will uproot you from the land of the living.Selah

Psalm 57:4

I am surrounded by lions;
I lie down with those who devour men.
Their teeth are spears and arrows;
their tongues are sharp swords.

Psalm 59:7

Look, they spew from their mouths—
sharp words from their lips.
“For who,” they say, “will hear?”

Psalm 140:9-11

When those who surround me rise up,
may the trouble their lips cause overwhelm them.

Proverbs 11:9

With his mouth the ungodly destroys his neighbor,
but through knowledge the righteous are rescued.

Proverbs 11:12

Whoever shows contempt for his neighbor lacks sense,
but a man with understanding keeps silent.

Proverbs 11:18

The wicked man earns an empty wage,
but the one who sows righteousness, a true reward.

Proverbs 12:22

Lying lips are detestable to the Lord,
but faithful people are His delight.

Proverbs 16:27

A worthless man digs up evil,
and his speech is like a scorching fire.

Proverbs 18:8

A gossip’s words are like choice food
that goes down to one’s innermost being.

Proverbs 18:21

Life and death are in the power of the tongue,
and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Proverbs 19:5

A false witness will not go unpunished,
and one who utters lies will not escape.

Proverbs 19:9

A false witness will not go unpunished,
and one who utters lies perishes.

James 3:5-8

So too, though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things. Consider how large a forest a small fire ignites.

Revelation 21:8

But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”