Psalms 140:3

American Standard Version (1901)

They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders' poison is under their lips. {{Selah

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  • Ps 58:4 : 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [They are] like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.
  • Gen 3:13 : 13 And Jehovah God said unto the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
  • Ps 52:2-3 : 2 Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 Thou lovest evil more than good, And lying rather than to speak righteousness. {{Selah
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, [say they], doth hear?
  • Ps 64:3-4 : 3 Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words, 4 That they may shoot in secret places at the perfect: Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.
  • Prov 23:32 : 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.
  • Isa 59:3-5 : 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness. 4 None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth; and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
  • Isa 59:13 : 13 transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 And they bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.
  • Jer 9:5 : 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
  • Matt 12:34 : 34 Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
  • Rom 3:13-14 : 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips: 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.
  • Jas 3:6-8 : 6 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind. 8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] a restless evil, [it is] full of deadly poison.

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    13Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

    15Their feet are swift to shed blood;

  • Ps 64:3-4
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    3Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,

    4That they may shoot in secret places at the perfect: Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

  • Ps 58:4
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    4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [They are] like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,

  • Ps 140:2
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    2Who devise mischiefs in their heart; Continually do they gather themselves together for war.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.

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    9As for the head of those that compass me about, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

  • Ps 52:2-4
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    2Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

    3Thou lovest evil more than good, And lying rather than to speak righteousness. {{Selah

    4Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12[ For] the sin of their mouth, [and] the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for cursing and lying which they speak.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth wait for him.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

  • Ps 73:9
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    9They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.

  • Ps 62:4
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    4They only consult to thrust him down from his dignity; They delight in lies; They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. {{Selah

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    7Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, [say they], doth hear?

  • Deut 32:33
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    33Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of asps.

  • Job 20:16
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    16He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper's tongue shall slay him.

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    2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief.

  • Ps 140:4-5
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    4Keep me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked; Preserve me from the violent man: Who have purposed to thrust aside my steps.

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    3What shall be given unto thee, and what shall be done more unto thee, Thou deceitful tongue?

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    3And they bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.

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    7But God will shoot at them; With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded.

    8So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.

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    8But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] a restless evil, [it is] full of deadly poison.

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    2They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

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    3Thy take crafty counsel against thy people, And consult together against thy hidden ones.

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    32At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.

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    62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

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    11For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.

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    4My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

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    13Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile.

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    18Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.

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    10They are inclosed in their own fat: With their mouth they speak proudly.

    11They have now compassed us in our steps; They set their eyes to cast [us] down to the earth.

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    13They gape upon me with their mouth, [As] a ravening and a roaring lion.

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    12They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me] ; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long.

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    6They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down: They have digged a pit before me; They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. {{Selah

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    10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.

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    22Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, [let it become] a trap.

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    20For they speak not peace; But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.

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    5And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

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    21His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.

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    11If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.

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    14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the way.