Psalm 140:3

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Summary

Psalm 140:3

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

Sharpened

Like a serpent

Adders

Psalm 58:4

Romans 3:13

General references

Proverbs 25:18

Bible References

Sharpened

Your tongue devises evil, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

My soul is among lions; I lie among those on fire, the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Behold, they bellow out with their mouth; swords are in their lips; for they say, Who hears?

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, they tread their arrows, even a bitter word,

There are those who speak like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies. But they are not mighty for the truth on the earth; for they go from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says Jehovah.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So the tongue is set among our members, spotting all the body and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed by hell.

Like a serpent

And Jehovah God said to the woman, What is this you have done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.

At the last it bites like an asp and stings like an adder.

Offspring of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, so your thoughts should be corrupted from the simplicity due to Christ.

Adders

Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like the deaf adder, he stops his ear,

"Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips;

General references

A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.