Psalm 140:3

Prayer For Rescue

² Who have devised evils in the heart, All the day they assemble for wars. ³ They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder is under their lips. Selah. ⁴ Preserve me, Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked, From one of violence Thou keepest me, Who have devised to overthrow my steps.

Selah

Psalm 58:4

Their poison is as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,

Psalm 57:4

My soul is in the midst of lions, I lie down among flames -- sons of men, Their teeth are a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

Genesis 3:13

And Jehovah God saith to the woman, 'What is this thou hast done?' and the woman saith, 'The serpent hath caused me to forget -- and I do eat.'

Psalm 52:2-3

Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

Psalm 59:7

Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords are in their lips, for 'Who heareth?'

Psalm 64:3-4

Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.

Proverbs 12:18

A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.

Proverbs 23:32

Its latter end -- as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.

Isaiah 59:3-5

For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.

Isaiah 59:13

Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostasy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongue, their bow is a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!

Jeremiah 9:5

And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.

Matthew 12:34

Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things -- being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.

Romans 3:13-14

A sepulchre opened is their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps is under their lips.

2 Corinthians 11:3

and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in the Christ;

James 3:6-8

and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.