Psalm 140:3 - New International Version (Anglicised)

They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent’s; the poison of vipers is on their lips.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 3:13

Then the Lord God said to the woman, ‘What is this you have done?’ The woman said, ‘The snake deceived me, and I ate.’

Psalm 57:4

I am in the midst of lions; I am forced to dwell among ravenous beasts – men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

Psalm 58:4

Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,

Psalm 59:7

See what they spew from their mouths – the words from their lips are sharp as swords, and they think, ‘Who can hear us?’

Proverbs 12:18

The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Proverbs 23:32

In the end it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.

Proverbs 6:14

who plots evil with deceit in his heart – he always stirs up conflict.

Isaiah 59:13

rebellion and treachery against the Lord, turning our backs on our God, inciting revolt and oppression, uttering lies our hearts have conceived.

Jeremiah 9:3

‘They make ready their tongue like a bow, to shoot lies; it is not by truth that they triumph in the land. They go from one sin to another; they do not acknowledge me,’ declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:5

Friend deceives friend, and no-one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning.

Lamentations 3:62

what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long.

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the snake’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.