Psalms 140:3

Psalms 140:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
• New International Version (NIV)They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent’s; the poison of vipers is on their lips.
• English Standard Version (ESV)They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah
• New King James Version (NKJV)They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; The poison of asps is under their lips. Selah

Context of Psalms 140:3

1Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man; preserve me from the violent man: 2Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually do they gather themselves together for war. They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah 4Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man: Who have purposed to thrust aside my steps. 5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way side; they have set gins for me. Selah

Psalms 140:3 word by word

שָֽׁנֲנ֣וּ לְשׁוֹנָם֮ כְּֽמוֹ־נָ֫חָ֥שׁ חֲמַ֥ת עַכְשׁ֑וּב תַּ֖חַת שְׂפָתֵ֣ימוֹ סֶֽלָה׃Read the interlinear

Cross-references for Psalms 140:3

• Psalms 52:2Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
• Psalms 57:4My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
• Psalms 59:7Behold, they belch out with their mouth; swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
• Psalms 64:3Who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrows, even bitter words:
• Proverbs 12:18There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
• Isaiah 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.
• Jeremiah 9:3And 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 know not me, saith the LORD.
• James 3:6And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.
• Genesis 3:13And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
• Proverbs 23:32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
• Matthew 12:34Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
• 2 Corinthians 11:3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.
• Psalms 58:4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
• Romans 3:13Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

Commentaries on Psalms 140:3

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent - Compare the notes at Psalm 64:3. The idea here is, that since the tongue of the serpent “seems” to be sharp, pointed, adapted to penetrate (and probably the original reference in the image was derived from that idea), the wound inflicted is by the serpent‘s tongue - “as if” with a hard, penetrating point. It is now known, however, that it is by a tooth - a single tooth, made flexible for the purpose - at…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3snakes … vipers: These creatures portray the wicked as very corrupt people (see Proverbs 23:32; Isaiah 14:29; Romans 3:13).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2-52-5. This character of the wicked, and the devices planned against the pious, correspond to Psa 10:7; 31:13; 58:4, &c.Read the comment
• Rashi on Tanakh · v. 3every day they gather to wage war There will be wars in their dwellings and in their settlements.Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 140:3

• Adder
• Afflictions and Adversities
• Asp
• Malice
• Quotations and Allusions
• Serpent
• Slander
• Speaking

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Commentaries on Psalms 140

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary