Psalms 140:3
What does Psalms 140:3 mean?
A plain-English look at Psalms 140:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders’ poison is under their lips. [Selah
KJV
King James Version · 1611They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders’ poison is under their lips. [Selah
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder <FI>is<Fi> under their lips. Selah.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Context
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.
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