Parallel Verses
World English Bible
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Holman Bible
as sharp as a snake’s bite;
viper’s venom is under their lips.
International Standard Version
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Interlude
A Conservative Version
They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent. Adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
American Standard Version
They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders poison is under their lips. Selah
Amplified
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;
Poison of a viper is under their lips.
Bible in Basic English
Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)
Darby Translation
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Julia Smith Translation
They sharpened their tongue as a serpent; the poison of asps under their lips. Silence,
King James 2000
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They sharpen their tongue as [sharp as] a snake's; [the] venom of a viper [is] under their lips. Selah
Modern King James verseion
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
NET Bible
Their tongues wound like a serpent; a viper's venom is behind their lips. (Selah)
New Heart English Bible
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.
The Emphasized Bible
They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent, - The poison of the asp, is under their lips. Selah.
Webster
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adder's poison is under their lips. Selah.
Youngs Literal Translation
They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder is under their lips. Selah.
Themes
Asp » Venom of, illustrates the speech of the wicked
or adder Asp » (venom of), of the speech of the wicked
Serpents » Evil men compared to
Serpents » Illustrative » (sharp tongue of,) of malice of the wicked
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 140:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Rescue
2 those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war. 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah. 4 Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
Psalm 57:4
My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Genesis 3:13
Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Psalm 52:2-3
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 59:7
Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"
Psalm 64:3-4
who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
Proverbs 23:32
In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.
Isaiah 59:3-5
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
Isaiah 59:13
transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Jeremiah 9:3
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 don't know me, says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 9:5
They will deceive everyone 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
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
Romans 3:13-14
"Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
James 3:6-8
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.