Their throat {is} an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps {is} under their lips:

[A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.] O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: {of flesh: Heb. of their flesh}

{They shall be} burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. {heat: Heb. coals}

Make me to hear joy and gladness; {that} the bones {which} thou hast broken may rejoice.

Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman {was} very beautiful to look upon.

If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay {it} to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay {it} to heart.

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that {it is} an evil {thing} and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear {is} not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

Their throat {is} an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps {is} under their lips:

Their wine {is} the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

Their poison {is} like the poison of a serpent: {they are} like the deaf adder {that} stoppeth her ear; {like the poison: Heb. according to the likeness, etc} {adder: or, asp}

For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and {in} the bond of iniquity.