Psalm 140:3

Prayer For Rescue

² Who devise mischiefs in their heart; Continually do they gather themselves together for war. ³ They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders poison is under their lips. Selah ⁴ Keep me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked; Preserve me from the violent man: Who have purposed to thrust aside my steps.

Selah

Psalm 58:4

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,

Psalm 57:4

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

Genesis 3:13

And Jehovah God said unto the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

Psalm 52:2-3

Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalm 59:7

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

Psalm 64:3-4

Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,

Proverbs 12:18

There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs 23:32

At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.

Isaiah 59:3-5

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

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.

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.

Jeremiah 9:5

And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

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.

Romans 3:13-14

Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

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.

James 3:6-8

And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.