Psalm 140:3

Prayer For Rescue

² They plan evil things in their hearts. They start conflicts (fights) (wars) every day. ³ They sharpen their tongues as a serpent;
Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.
⁴ Protect me from the hands of wicked people, O Jehovah. Keep me safe from violent people. They try to trip me.

Selah

Psalm 58:4

Their poison is like the poison of a snake. It is like a deaf cobra that stops its ear.

Psalm 57:4

I am among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows. Their tongue is a sharp sword.

Genesis 3:13

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

Psalm 52:2-3

Your tongue makes up wickedness. It is like a sharp razor, you master of deceit.

Psalm 59:7

See what pours out of their mouths, swords from their lips! They think: Who will hear us?

Psalm 64:3-4

Their words cut like swords, and their cruel remarks sting like sharp arrows.

Proverbs 12:18

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword. The tongue of the wise brings a cure.

Proverbs 23:32

In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper.

Isaiah 59:3-5

Your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers are desecrated with sin. You speak lies, and you mutter wicked things.

Isaiah 59:13

We rebelled and denied Jehovah. We turned away from our God. We spoke about oppression and revolt. We conceived and uttered lies in our hearts.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongue like their bow. Lies and not truth prevail in the land. They move from evil to evil. They do not know me, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 9:5

Everyone deceives his neighbor and does not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They wear themselves out committing sin.

Matthew 12:34

You offspring of vipers. How can you who are evil speak good things? Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Romans 3:13-14

Their throat is an open grave. They have practiced deceit with their tongues. The poison of snakes is under their lips. (Psalm 5:9)

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds will be lead away from the simplicity and the purity (cleanness) that is toward Christ.

James 3:6-8

The tongue is like fire, the place of iniquity among our members. It defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of our life. It is set ablaze like the ever-burning fires in the Valley of Hinnom (Greek: Gehenna: symbolic of total destruction).