Psalms 140:3

World English Bible (2000)

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.

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  • Ps 58:4 : 4 Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
  • Gen 3:13 : 13 Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
  • Ps 52:2-3 : 2 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"
  • Ps 64:3-4 : 3 who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words, 4 to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
  • Prov 23:32 : 32 In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.
  • Isa 59:3-5 : 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. 4 None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
  • Isa 59:13 : 13 transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.
  • Jer 9:5 : 5 They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
  • Matt 12:34 : 34 You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
  • Rom 3:13-14 : 13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;" 14 "whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
  • Jas 3:6-8 : 6 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna. 7 For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

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  • Rom 3:13-15
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    13"Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"

    14"whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."

    15"Their feet are swift to shed blood.

  • Ps 64:3-4
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    3who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

    4to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

  • Ps 58:4
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    4Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

  • Ps 140:2
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    2those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

  • Ps 140:9
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    9As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

  • Ps 52:2-4
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    2Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

    3You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.

    4You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

  • Ps 73:9
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    9They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

  • Ps 62:4
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    4They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

  • Ps 59:7
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    7Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"

  • Deut 32:33
    74%

    33Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps.

  • Job 20:16
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    16He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

  • Ps 109:2
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    2for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

  • Ps 140:4-5
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    4Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.

    5The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

  • Ps 120:3
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    3What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

  • Jer 9:3
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    3They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.

  • Ps 64:7-8
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    7But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

    8Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

  • Jas 3:8
    72%

    8But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

  • Ps 12:2-3
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    2Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

    3May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

  • Ps 83:3
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    3They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

  • Prov 23:32
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    32In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

  • Lam 3:62
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    62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

  • Ps 21:11
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    11For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

  • Ps 57:4
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    4My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

  • Ps 34:13
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    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

  • Ps 31:18
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    18Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

  • Ps 17:10-11
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    10They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

    11They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

  • Ps 22:13
    71%

    13They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • Ps 38:12
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    12They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

  • Ps 57:6
    71%

    6They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.

  • Job 16:10
    71%

    10They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

  • Ps 69:22
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    22Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

  • Ps 35:20
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    20For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

  • Jer 9:5
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    5They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

  • Ps 55:21
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    21His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

  • Eccl 10:11
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    11If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer's tongue.

  • Ps 37:14
    70%

    14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.