Psalm 140:3 - Tree of Life Version

who devise evil in their heart— every day they stir up wars.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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)

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

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Psalm 140:3 Cross References

Genesis 3:13

Adonai Elohim said to the woman, “What did you do?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me and I ate.”

Psalm 57:4

He will send from heaven and save me. He rebukes the one trampling on me. Selah God is sending His mercy and His truth.

Psalm 58:4

The wicked are strangers from the womb. Speaking lies, they go astray from birth.

Psalm 59:7

They return at evening, snarling like a dog, prowling about the city.

Proverbs 12:18

Reckless speech is like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Proverbs 23:32

In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper.

Proverbs 6:14

who continually plots evil with deceit in his heart stirring up strife.

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing and denying Adonai, turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.

Jeremiah 9:3

Beware, everyone, of your neighbor! Don’t even trust a brother. For every brother grabs like Jacob and every neighbor spreads slander.

Jeremiah 9:5

“You dwell in the midst of deceit. In deceit they refuse to know Me.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

Lamentations 3:62

The lips of my assailants and their whispering are against me all day long.

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers! How can you who are evil say anything good? For from the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds might be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion and purity to the Messiah.