Psalms 140:3
“They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.”
Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
Cross-References
“But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”
“Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:”
“Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;”
“And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.”
“Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.”