Psalm 140:3

Young's Literal Translation 1898

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

Cross References

Genesis 3:13

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.'

Psalm 57:4

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.

Psalm 58:4

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

Psalm 59:7

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

Proverbs 12:18

A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.

Proverbs 23:32

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

Proverbs 6:14

Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

Isaiah 59:13

Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostasy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood.

Jeremiah 9:3

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!

Jeremiah 9:5

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.

Lamentations 3:62

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

Matthew 12:34

`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.

2 Corinthians 11:3

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;