Your Throne, O God, Is Forever

To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah; a love song.

My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.

“You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.

You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.

Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.

My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts— the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

They are brought to ruin, with their own tongues turned against them; all who see them will wag their heads.

I cried to him with my mouth, and high praise was on my tongue.

that you may strike your feet in their blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe.”

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disappointed who sought to do me hurt.

They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.

But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.

For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.

My tongue will sing of your word, for all your commandments are right.

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

What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you, you deceitful tongue?

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”

Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!

Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.

They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; the heart of the wicked is of little worth.