Psalm 140:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ They make their tongue sharp as a snake’s, and under their lips is the venom of vipers. 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.

Psalm 140:3 Cross References

Psalm 58:4

They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by its cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

Proverbs 23:32

At the last it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Jeremiah 9:5

They all deceive their neighbors, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongues to speak lies; they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongues like bows; they have grown strong in the land for falsehood and not for truth, for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the Lord.

Psalm 57:4

I lie down among lions that greedily devour human prey; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing and denying the Lord and turning away from following our God, talking oppression and revolt, conceiving lying words and uttering them from the heart.

Proverbs 12:18

Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Genesis 3:13

Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”

Psalm 59:7

There they are, bellowing with their mouths, with sharp words on their lips, for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”

Proverbs 6:14

with perverted mind devising evil, continually sowing discord;

Lamentations 3:62

The whispers and murmurs of my assailants are against me all day long.