Hosea 7:16

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

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.

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.