Psalm 140:3 - The Scriptures 2009

³ They sharpen their tongues like a snake; The poison of cobras is under their lips. Selah.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; Adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ They sharpen their tongues like a serpent's; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! [Rom. 3:13.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders’ poison is under their lips. [Selah

Common English Bible

³ They sharpen their tongues like a snake’s; spider poison is on their lips. Selah

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ O Lord, station a guard over my mouth and a door enclosing my lips.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.

Psalm 140:3 Cross References

Genesis 3:13

And יהוה Elohim said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The naḥash deceived me, and I ate.”

Psalm 57:4

My being is in the midst of lions; I lie among those who breathe fire, Whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue is a sharp sword.

Psalm 58:4

Their poison is like the poison of a snake; Like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

Psalm 59:7

See, they belch out with their mouth, Swords are in their lips, For who is listening?

Proverbs 12:18

Rash speaking is like piercings of a sword, But the tongue of the wise is healing.

Proverbs 23:32

In the end it bites like a snake, And stings like an adder –

Proverbs 6:14

Perverseness is in his heart, Plotting evil at all times, He sends out strife.

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing, and being untrue to יהוה, and turning away from our Elohim, speaking oppression and apostasy, conceiving and pondering words of falsehood from the heart.

Jeremiah 9:3

“And they bend their tongue like a bow. Falsehood, and not truth, prevails on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they have not known Me,” declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 9:5

“And everyone deceives his neighbour, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak falsehood, and have wearied themselves to crook.

Lamentations 3:62

The lips of those rising against me, And their scheming against me all the day.

Matthew 12:34

“Brood of adders! How are you able to speak what is good – being wicked? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid, lest, as the serpent deceived Ḥawwah by his trickery, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Messiah.