Verse 3

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  De som planlegger ondskap i hjertet, skaper fortsatt konflikter.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  De har kvesset tungen sin som en slange; huggormens gift er under deres lepper. Sela.

• Norsk King James

  De har skarpe tunger som en slange; slangegift er under leppene deres. Sela.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  De som legger onde planer i hjertet, de samler seg hele dagen for å føre krig.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  De planlegger ondskap i sitt hjerte; hver dag oppildner de til krig.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  De har skjerpet sine tunger som en slange; hoggormens gift er under deres lepper. Sela.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  De har skjerpet sine tunger som en slange; huggormsgift hviler under deres lepper. Selah.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  De har skjerpet sine tunger som en slange; hoggormens gift er under deres lepper. Sela.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  De som planlegger ondskap i hjertet, og daglig oppvigler til krig.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  They devise wicked schemes in their hearts and stir up conflicts all day long.

• biblecontext

  { "verseID": "Psalms.140.3", "source": "אֲשֶׁ֤ר חָשְׁב֣וּ רָע֣וֹת בְּלֵ֑ב כָּל־י֝֗וֹם יָג֥וּרוּ מִלְחָמֽוֹת׃", "text": "*ʾăšer* *ḥāšəḇû* *rāʿôt* in-*lēḇ* all-*yôm* *yāgûrû* *milḥāmôt*", "grammar": { "*ʾăšer*": "relative pronoun - who/which/that", "*ḥāšəḇû*": "qal perfect 3rd person plural verb - they devised/planned", "*rāʿôt*": "feminine plural noun - evils/evil things", "*lēḇ*": "masculine singular noun with prefixed preposition bet (in) - heart", "*yôm*": "masculine singular noun with prefixed kol (all/every) - day", "*yāgûrû*": "qal imperfect 3rd person plural verb - they stir up/gather", "*milḥāmôt*": "feminine plural noun - wars/battles" }, "variants": { "*ḥāšəḇû*": "they planned/they devised/they imagined", "*rāʿôt*": "evils/wickedness/evil things", "*lēḇ*": "heart/mind/inner self", "*yāgûrû*": "they stir up/they gather/they incite", "*milḥāmôt*": "wars/battles/conflicts" } }

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  de som legger onde planer i hjertet og stadig oppvigler til strid.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  De, som tænke onde Ting i Hjertet, de holde sig tilsammen den ganske Dag (for at føre) Krig.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their li. Selah.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  De har skjerpet sine tunger som en slange; giftslangen har gift under sine lepper. Sela.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  De har kvesset tungen sin som en slange. Ormegift er under leppene deres. Sela.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  De spisser tungen som en slange, gift fra en hoggorm er under leppene deres. Sela.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  De har skjerpet tungen som en slange; hoggormgift er under deres lepper. Sela.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Deres tunger er skarpe som slanger; slangens gift er under deres lepper. (Sela.)

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  They sharpen their tonges like a serpent, Adders poyson is vnder their lippes.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

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

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  They haue sharpened their tongue lyke a serpent: Adders poyson is vnder their lippes. Selah.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison [is] under their lips. Selah.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)

• World English Bible (2000)

  They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Their tongues wound like a serpent; a viper’s venom is behind their lips.(Selah)

Referenced Verses

• Ps 58:4 : 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stops her ear;
• Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions, and I lie among those who 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 the LORD God said to the woman, What is this you have done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.
• Ps 52:2-3 : 2 Your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 You love evil more than good; and lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah.
• Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they belch out with their mouths; swords are in their lips, for who, they say, hears?
• Ps 64:3-4 : 3 Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words. 4 That they may shoot in secret at the blameless; suddenly do they shoot at him and fear not.
• Prov 12:18 : 18 There are those who speak like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
• Prov 23:32 : 32 At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper.
• Isa 59:3-5 : 3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness. 4 No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch viper’s eggs and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies, and what is crushed breaks out into a viper.
• Isa 59:13 : 13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
• Jer 9:3 : 3 And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.
• 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, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
• Matt 12:34 : 34 O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
• Rom 3:13-14 : 13 'Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of vipers is under their lips.' 14 'Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.'
• 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve through his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
• Jas 3:6-8 : 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is among our members, that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast, and of bird, and of serpent, and of things in the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But no man can tame the tongue; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.