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“Deliver me, O Lord,
    from lying lips,
    from a deceitful tongue.”

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Save me, Lord,
    from lying lips(A)
    and from deceitful tongues.(B)

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And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.6 Gk Gehenna

The tongue also is a fire,(A) a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body,(B) sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.(C)

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