Psalms 140:3 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 140:3

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.

KJV

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ASV

They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders’ poison is under their lips. [Selah

WEB

They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah

YLT

They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder is under their lips. Selah.

DBT

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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26 verses on the floor

James 3:8
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Romans 3:13
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
James 3:6
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.
Psalms 31:20
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.
Psalms 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

Keep me from doing as they do, or as they would have me do, or as they promise themselves I shall do." Note, The more malice appears in our enemies against us the more earnest we should be in prayer to God to take us under his protection. In him believers may count upon a security, and may enjoy it and themselves with a holy serenity. Those are safe whom God preserves.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

And they endeavoured likewise to infuse their malice into others, and to make them seven times more the children of hell than themselves. A malignant tongue makes men like the old serpent; and poison in the lips is a certain sign of poison in the heart. They are confederate; they are many of them; but they are all gathered together against me for war,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Quoted in ROM 3:13
'the poison of asps is under their lips' (sin catena)

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 140:32CO 11:3 COL 2:8
PSA 140:32CO 11:3 GAL 1:6
PSA 140:32CO 11:3 EPH 4:14
PSA 140:32CO 11:3 1JN 4:1
PSA 140:32CO 11:3 COL 2:4
PSA 140:3PSA 58:4 JAS 3:8
PSA 140:3JER 9:5 HAB 2:13
PSA 140:3JER 9:5 MIC 6:12

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