Psalms 140:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder `is' under their lips. Selah.

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  • Ps 58:4 : 4 Their poison `is' as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul `is' in the midst of lions, I lie down `among' flames -- sons of men, Their teeth `are' a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.
  • Gen 3:13 : 13 And Jehovah God saith to the woman, `What `is' this thou hast done?' and the woman saith, `The serpent hath caused me to forget -- and I do eat.'
  • Ps 52:2-3 : 2 Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit. 3 Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords `are' in their lips, for `Who heareth?'
  • Ps 64:3-4 : 3 Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word. 4 To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.
  • Prov 23:32 : 32 Its latter end -- as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.
  • Isa 59:3-5 : 3 For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter. 4 There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity. 5 Eggs of a viper they have hatched, And webs of a spider they weave, Whoso is eating their eggs doth die, And the crushed hatcheth a viper.
  • Isa 59:13 : 13 Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostacy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 And they bend their tongue, their bow `is' a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!
  • Jer 9:5 : 5 And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.
  • Matt 12:34 : 34 `Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things -- being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.
  • Rom 3:13-14 : 13 A sepulchre opened `is' their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps `is' under their lips. 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that `is' in the Christ;
  • Jas 3:6-8 : 6 and the tongue `is' a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna. 7 For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature, 8 and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, `it is' an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 3:13-15
    3 verses
    87%

    13A sepulchre opened `is' their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps `is' under their lips.

    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

    15Swift `are' their feet to shed blood.

  • Ps 64:3-4
    2 verses
    81%

    3Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.

    4To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.

  • Ps 58:4
    81%

    4Their poison `is' as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,

  • Ps 140:2
    78%

    2Who have devised evils in the heart, All the day they assemble `for' wars.

  • Ps 5:9
    77%

    9For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart `is' mischiefs, An open grave `is' their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.

  • Ps 140:9
    77%

    9The chief of my surrounders, The perverseness of their lips covereth them.

  • Ps 52:2-4
    3 verses
    77%

    2Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

    3Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah.

    4Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

  • Ps 59:12
    76%

    12The sin of their mouth `is' a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.

  • Jer 9:8
    75%

    8A slaughtering arrow `is' their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour it speaketh, And in its heart it layeth its ambush,

  • Ps 10:7
    75%

    7Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue `is' perverseness and iniquity,

  • Ps 73:9
    75%

    9They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

  • Ps 62:4
    75%

    4Only -- from his excellency They have consulted to drive away, They enjoy a lie, with their mouth they bless, And with their heart revile. Selah.

  • Ps 59:7
    75%

    7Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords `are' in their lips, for `Who heareth?'

  • Deut 32:33
    74%

    33The poison of dragons `is' their wine And the fierce venom of asps.

  • Job 20:16
    74%

    16Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.

  • Ps 109:2
    74%

    2For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me -- A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!

  • Prov 24:2
    74%

    2For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.

  • Ps 140:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4Preserve me, Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked, From one of violence Thou keepest me, Who have devised to overthrow my steps.

    5The proud hid a snare for me -- and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah.

  • Ps 120:3
    74%

    3What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue!

  • Jer 9:3
    73%

    3And they bend their tongue, their bow `is' a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!

  • Ps 64:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7And God doth shoot them `with' an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,

    8And they cause him to stumble, Against them `is' their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.

  • Jas 3:8
    72%

    8and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, `it is' an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

  • Ps 12:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

    3Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,

  • Ps 83:3
    72%

    3Against Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy hidden ones.

  • Prov 23:32
    72%

    32Its latter end -- as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.

  • Lam 3:62
    72%

    62The lips of my withstanders, Even their meditation against me all the day.

  • Ps 21:11
    72%

    11For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,

  • Ps 57:4
    71%

    4My soul `is' in the midst of lions, I lie down `among' flames -- sons of men, Their teeth `are' a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

  • Ps 34:13
    71%

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

  • Ps 31:18
    71%

    18Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

  • Ps 17:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10Their fat they have closed up, Their mouths have spoken with pride:

    11`Our steps now have compassed `him';' Their eyes they set to turn aside in the land.

  • Ps 22:13
    71%

    13They have opened against me their mouth, A lion tearing and roaring.

  • Ps 38:12
    71%

    12And those seeking my soul lay a snare, And those seeking my evil Have spoken mischievous things, And they do deceits meditate all the day.

  • Ps 57:6
    71%

    6A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.

  • Job 16:10
    71%

    10They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.

  • Ps 69:22
    71%

    22Their table before them is for a snare, And for a recompence -- for a trap.

  • Ps 35:20
    71%

    20For they speak not peace, And against the quiet of the land, Deceitful words they devise,

  • Jer 9:5
    71%

    5And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.

  • Ps 55:21
    71%

    21Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart `is' war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they `are' drawn `swords'.

  • Eccl 10:11
    71%

    11If the serpent biteth without enchantment, Then there is no advantage to a master of the tongue.

  • Ps 37:14
    70%

    14A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way.