For I do not know how to give [such] titles; otherwise, my Maker would remove me in an instant.

They have become hardened; their mouths speak arrogantly.

They mock, and they speak maliciously; they arrogantly threaten oppression.

They set their mouths against heaven, and their tongues strut across the earth.

The enemy said: "I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. My desire will be gratified at their expense. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them."

Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogant [words] come out of your mouth, for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and actions are weighed by Him.

He said to David, "Am I a dog that you come against me with sticks?" Then he cursed David by his gods.

"Come here," the Philistine called to David, "and I'll give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts!"

You have mocked the Lord through your messengers. You have said: With my many chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon. I cut down its tallest cedars, its choice cypress trees. I came to its farthest outpost, its densest forest.

I dug [wells], and I drank foreign waters. I dried up all the streams of Egypt with the soles of my feet.

As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms, whose idols exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

"Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre: This is what the Lord God says: Your heart is proud, and you have said: I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea. Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.

Will you still say: I am a god, in the presence of those who kill you? Yet you will be [shown to be] a man, not a god, in the hands of those who kill you.

Speak [to him] and say: This is what the Lord God says: Look, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monsterlying in the middle of his Nile, who says: My Nile is my own; I made [it] for myself.

the king exclaimed, "Is this not Babylon the Great that I have built by my vast power to be a royal residence and to display my majestic glory?"

While the words were still in the king's mouth, a voice came from heaven: "King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is declared that the kingdom has departed from you.

"While I was considering the horns, suddenly another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. There were eyes in this horn like a man's, and it had a mouth that spoke arrogantly.

He will speak words against the Most High and oppress the holy ones of the Most High. He will intend to change religious festivals and laws, and the holy ones will be handed over to him for a time, times, and half a time.

"Your words against Me are harsh," says the LORD. Yet you ask: "What have we spoken against You?"

For uttering bombastic, empty words, they seduce, by fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

These people are discontented grumblers, walking according to their desires; their mouths utter arrogant words, flattering people for their own advantage.

A mouth was given to him to speak boasts and blasphemies. He was also given authority to act for 42 months.

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