Psalms 140:3

Geneva Bible (1560)

They haue sharpened their tongues like a serpent: adders poyson is vnder their lips. Selah.

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  • Ps 58:4 : 4 Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soule is among lions: I lie among the children of men, that are set on fire: whose teeth are speares and arrowes, & their tongue a sharpe sworde.
  • Gen 3:13 : 13 And the Lorde God saide to the woman, Why hast thou done this? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eate.
  • Ps 52:2-3 : 2 Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully. 3 Thou doest loue euill more then good, and lies more then to speake the trueth. Selah.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they brag in their talke, & swords are in their lips: for, Who, say they, doeth heare?
  • Ps 64:3-4 : 3 Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes. 4 To shoote at the vpright in secrete: they shoote at him suddenly, and feare not.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 There is that speaketh wordes like the prickings of a sworde: but the tongue of wise men is health.
  • Prov 23:32 : 32 In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.
  • Isa 59:3-5 : 3 For your handes are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquitie: your lips haue spoken lies & your tongue hath murmured iniquitie. 4 No man calleth for iustice: no man contendeth for trueth: they trust in vanitie, & speake vaine things: they conceiue mischiefe, and bring foorth iniquitie. 5 They hatch cockatrice egges, and weaue the spiders webbe: he that eateth of their egges, dieth, and that which is trode vpon, breaketh out into a serpent.
  • Isa 59:13 : 13 In trespassing and lying against the Lorde, and wee haue departed away from our God, and haue spoken of crueltie and rebellion, conceiuing and vttering out of the heart false matters.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 And they bende their tongues like their bowes for lyes: but they haue no courage for the trueth vpon the earth: for they proceede from euill to worse, and they haue not knowen mee, sayth the Lord.
  • Jer 9:5 : 5 And euery one wil deceiue his friende, and wil not speake the trueth: for they haue taught their tongues to speake lies, and take great paynes to do wickedly.
  • Matt 12:34 : 34 O generations of vipers, howe can you speake good things, when ye are euill? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
  • Rom 3:13-14 : 13 Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes. 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse.
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I feare least as the serpent beguiled Eue through his subtiltie, so your mindes shoulde be corrupt fro the simplicitie that is in Christ.
  • Jas 3:6-8 : 6 And the tongue is fire, yea, a worlde of wickednesse: so is the tongue set 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. 7 For the whole nature of beasts, & of birds, and of creeping things, and things of the sea is tamed, and hath bene tamed of the nature of man. 8 But the tongue can no man tame. It is an vnruly euill, full of deadly poyson.

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    13Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes.

    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse.

    15Their feete are swift to shead blood.

  • Ps 64:3-4
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    3Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes.

    4To shoote at the vpright in secrete: they shoote at him suddenly, and feare not.

  • Ps 58:4
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    4Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.

  • Ps 140:2
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    2Which imagine euill things in their heart, and make warre continually.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9For no constancie is in their mouth: within, they are very corruption: their throte is an open sepulchre, and they flatter with their tongue.

  • Ps 140:9
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    9As for the chiefe of them, that compasse me about, let the mischiefe of their owne lippes come vpon them.

  • Ps 52:2-4
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    2Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.

    3Thou doest loue euill more then good, and lies more then to speake the trueth. Selah.

    4Thou louest all wordes that may destroye, O deceitfull tongue!

  • Ps 59:12
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    12For the sinne of their mouth, and the words of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride, euen for their periurie and lies, that they speake.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8Their tongue is as an arow shot out, and speaketh deceite: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart hee layeth waite for him.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.

  • Ps 73:9
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    9They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

  • Ps 62:4
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    4Yet they consult to cast him downe from his dignitie: their delight is in lies, they blesse with their mouthes, but curse with their hearts. Selah.

  • Ps 59:7
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    7Behold, they brag in their talke, & swords are in their lips: for, Who, say they, doeth heare?

  • Deut 32:33
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    33Their wine is the poyson of dragons, and the cruel gall of aspes.

  • Job 20:16
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    16He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.

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    2For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth full of deceite are opened vpon me: they haue spoken to me with a lying tongue.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2For their heart imagineth destruction, and their lippes speake mischiefe.

  • Ps 140:4-5
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    4Keepe mee, O Lord, from the handes of the wicked: preserue mee from the cruell man, which purposeth to cause my steppes to slide.

    5The proude haue layde a snare for me, and spred a nette with cordes in my pathway, and set grennes for me. Selah.

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    3What doeth thy deceitfull tongue bring vnto thee? or what doeth it auaile thee?

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    3And they bende their tongues like their bowes for lyes: but they haue no courage for the trueth vpon the earth: for they proceede from euill to worse, and they haue not knowen mee, sayth the Lord.

  • Ps 64:7-8
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    7But God will shoote an arrowe at them suddenly: their strokes shalbe at once.

    8They shall cause their owne tongue to fall vpon them: and whosoeuer shall see them, shall flee away.

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    8But the tongue can no man tame. It is an vnruly euill, full of deadly poyson.

  • Ps 12:2-3
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    2They speake deceitfully euery one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips, and speake with a double heart.

    3The Lorde cut off all flattering lippes, and the tongue that speaketh proude things:

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    3They haue taken craftie counsell against thy people, and haue consulted against thy secret ones.

  • Prov 23:32
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    32In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.

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    62The lippes also of those that rose against me, and their whispering against me continually.

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    11For they intended euill against thee, and imagined mischiefe, but they shall not preuaile.

  • Ps 57:4
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    4My soule is among lions: I lie among the children of men, that are set on fire: whose teeth are speares and arrowes, & their tongue a sharpe sworde.

  • Ps 34:13
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    13Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lips, that they speake no guile.

  • Ps 31:18
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    18Let the lying lips be made dumme, which cruelly, proudly and spitefully speake against the righteous.

  • Ps 17:10-11
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    10They are inclosed in their owne fat, and they haue spoken proudely with their mouth.

    11They haue compassed vs now in our steps: they haue set their eyes to bring downe to the ground:

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    13They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as a ramping and roaring lyon.

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    12They also, that seeke after my life, laye snares, and they that go about to do me euil, talke wicked things and imagine deceite continually.

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    6They haue layd a net for my steps: my soule is pressed downe: they haue digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the mids of it. Selah.

  • Job 16:10
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    10They haue opened their mouthes vpon me, and smitten me on the cheeke in reproch; they gather themselues together against me.

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    22Let their table be a snare before them, and their prosperitie their ruine.

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    20For they speake not as friendes: but they imagine deceitfull woordes against the quiet of the lande.

  • Jer 9:5
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    5And euery one wil deceiue his friende, and wil not speake the trueth: for they haue taught their tongues to speake lies, and take great paynes to do wickedly.

  • Ps 55:21
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    21The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his words were more gentle then oyle, yet they were swordes.

  • Eccl 10:11
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    11If the serpent bite, when he is not charmed: no better is a babbler.

  • Ps 37:14
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    14The wicked haue drawen their sworde, and haue bent their bowe, to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of vpright conuersation.