Psalms 140:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Psalms 140:3 —

Old words in this verse

selah: — a pause or musical mark (meaning uncertain).

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Romans 3:13-14
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: …
Proverbs 23:32
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Topics

Adder Afflictions and Adversities Anger Animals Asp Backbiting Cruelty Gossip

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

In this, as in other things, David was a type of Christ, that he suffered before he reigned, was humbled before he was exalted, and that as there were many who loved and valued him, and sought to do him honour, so there were many who hated and envied him, and sought to do him mischief, as appears by these verses, where, I. He gives a character of his enemies, and paints them out in their own colou…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

2-5. This character of the wicked, and the devices planned against the pious, correspond to Psa 10:7; 31:13; 58:4, &c.