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Psalms 140:3

Psalms chapter 140 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.2Who devise mischiefs in their heart; Continually do they gather themselves together for war.

v.3This passage

v.4Keep me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked; Preserve me from the violent man: Who have purposed to thrust aside my steps.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Corinthians 11:3

    But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.

  • Psalms 59:7

    Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, say they, doth hear?

  • Jeremiah 9:3

    And 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 know not me, saith Jehovah.

  • Isaiah 59:13

    transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

  • Matthew 12:34

    Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

  • Isaiah 59:3

    For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.