Psalms 140:3
They haue sharpened their tongues like a serpent: adders poyson is vnder their lips. Selah.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
In Context
2Which imagine euill things in their heart, and make warre continually.
Cross References
Psalms 52:2Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.
Psalms 58:4Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.
Psalms 64:3Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes.
Proverbs 12:18There is that speaketh wordes like the prickings of a sworde: but the tongue of wise men is health.
Isaiah 59:3For your handes are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquitie: your lips haue spoken lies and your tongue hath murmured iniquitie.
Jeremiah 9:3And they bende their tongues like their bowes for lyes: but they haue no courage for the trueth vpon the earth: for they proceede from euill to worse, and they haue not knowen mee, sayth the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 140:2-8
Complaints and Petitions. 1 Deliver me, O Lord , from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; 2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah. 4 Keep me, O Lord , from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings. 5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins… Read the whole commentary →