Psalm 140:3
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They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah
They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s; Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
They make their tongues as sharp as a snake’s bite; viper’s venom is under their lips.Selah
They sharpen their tongues like a snake’s; spider poison is on their lips. Selah
They plan evil things in their hearts — they continually stir up bitter strife.
Their words bite deep like the poisonous fangs of a snake.
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.
Their words are as harmful as the fangs of a snake, as deadly as its venom. Selah
Their words hurt people, like the tongue of a snake. They bite with poison, like a dangerous snake. Selah
They sharpen their tongues like a snake. Interlude The poison of vipers is under their lips.
They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah
They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah
They make their tongues sharp as a snake’s; ·their words are like snake poison [L the venom of vipers is under their lips; Rom. 3:13]. ·Selah [Interlude]
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
They make their tongues as sharp as a snake’s ⌞fang⌟. Their lips hide the venom of poisonous snakes. Selah
Their tongues are like deadly snakes; their words are like a cobra's poison.
They make their tongues as sharp as a snake’s bite; viper’s venom is under their lips.Selah
They make their tongues sharp as a snake’s. Their words are like snake poison. Selah
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Interlude
They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
They sharpen their tongues as a serpent; Poison of an asp is under their lips. Selah.
They sharpen their tongue as sharp as a snake’s; the venom of a viper is under their lips. Selah
Their words sting like poisonous snakes.
God, get me out of here, away from this evil; protect me from these vicious people. All they do is think up new ways to be bad; they spend their days plotting war games. They practice the sharp rhetoric of hate and hurt, speak venomous words that maim and kill. God, keep me out of the clutch of these wicked ones, protect me from these vicious people; All boast and swagger, they plot ways to trip me up, determined to bring me down. These crooks invent traps to catch me and do their best to incriminate me.
They have tongues as sharp as a serpent; adders’ poison is with their lips. Selah
They make their tongues as sharp as a snake’s fang. Their lips hide the venom of poisonous snakes. Selah
From those who plan evil in their hearts, who stir up conflicts every day,
They sharpen their tongues like a snake; The venom of a viper is under their lips. Selah
They sharpen their tongues as a serpent; Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.
who plan evil schemes in their hearts and stir up strife continually.
They make their tongues sharp as a snake’s; their words are like snake poison. Selah
Their tongues wound like a serpent; a viper’s venom is behind their lips. (Selah)
Their tongues are as deadly as the tongue of a serpent. The words from their lips are like the poison of a snake.
They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent’s; the poison of vipers is on their lips.
They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent’s; the poison of vipers is on their lips.
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; The poison of asps is under their lips. Selah
They make their tongues sharp like a snake’s. And the poison of a snake is under their lips.
Their tongues sting like a snake; the venom of a viper drips from their lips. Interlude
They make their tongue sharp as a snake’s, and under their lips is the venom of vipers.Selah
They make their tongue sharp as a snake’s, and under their lips is the venom of vipers.Selah
They make their tongue sharp as a snake’s, and under their lips is the venom of vipers.Selah
They make their tongue sharp as a snake’s, and under their lips is the venom of vipers. Selah
They have sharpened their leshonot like a nachash; the venom of a spider is under their sfatayim (lips). Selah.
They make their tongue sharp as a serpent’s, and under their lips is the poison of vipers.Selah
They make their tongue sharp as a serpent’s, and under their lips is the poison of vipers.Selah
who devise evil in their heart— every day they stir up wars.
These snakes have sharpened their tongues; viper venom hides beneath their lips. [pause]
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.
They sharpened their tongues as serpents; the venom of snakes is under the lips of them. (Their tongues be sharp like the fangs of serpents; the venom of snakes is on their lips.)
They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder [is] under their lips. Selah.
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