KJV King James Version
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison [is] under their lips. Selah.
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Psalm 140:3
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison [is] under their lips. Selah.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
WEB World English Bible
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.
ASV American Standard Version
They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders’ poison is under their lips. [Selah
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder is under their lips. Selah.
Surrounding context — Psalm 140
1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
2 Which imagine mischiefs in [their] heart; continually are they gathered together [for] war.
3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison [is] under their lips. Selah.
4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
6 I said unto the LORD, Thou [art] my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.
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Psalm 58:4Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;2 Corinthians 11:3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.Romans 3:13-14Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:Proverbs 23:32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.Matthew 12:34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.Isaiah 59:3-5For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.Jeremiah 9:3And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.Jeremiah 9:5And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity.James 3:6-8And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.Psalm 57:4My 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.Psalm 52:2-3Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.Isaiah 59:13In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.Genesis 3:13And the LORD God said unto the woman, What [is] this [that] thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.Psalm 64:3-4Who whet their tongue like a sword, [and] bend [their bows to shoot] their arrows, [even] bitter words:Proverbs 12:18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.Psalm 59:7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their lips: for who, [say they], doth hear?
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