 | Zondervan - 1984 - 940 pages
...violent man; 2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. 3 prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand sha Selah. 4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man: who have... | |
 | Paul V. Harrison, Robert E. Picirilli - 1992 - 384 pages
...messengers (Job 33:23). That the tongue bears death in the form of poison points to the Davidic Ps. 140:3: "They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips" (cf. Rom. 3:13). This death-bearing aspect of the tongue reminds us how the Serpent, through the use... | |
 | James J. Sosnoski - 1994 - 320 pages
...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... | |
 | Terrence Gordon - 1994 - 596 pages
...This is especially the case with certain kinds of metaphor. When the Psalmist cries of his enemies, 'They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips', it is hard to determine whether an elusive similarity between the reptile and the person he is describing... | |
 | David Yount - 1997 - 230 pages
...* and stir up strife all the day long. They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; * adder's poison is under their lips. Keep me, O LORD, from...wicked men, who are purposed to overthrow my goings. The proud have laid a snare for me, and spread a net abroad with cords; * yea, and set traps in my... | |
 | Donald Harman Akenson - 1998 - 684 pages
...psalmist's description of his rival or enemies (who, in both cases, are defined as being evil) in Psalm 140: "they have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips" (v.3). Forgiveness is not considered: "Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the... | |
 | Carolyn V. Platt - 1998 - 296 pages
...of God's retribution, as receivers of his wrath, or as metaphors for unattractive human qualities: "They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison [is] under their lips." Unusual is Proverbs' wonder at the uniqueness of snakes: "There be three things which are too wonderful... | |
 | Laurance Wieder - 1999 - 338 pages
...violent man; 2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah. 4 Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have... | |
 | Elizabeth Clare Prophet - 2004 - 428 pages
...the seed of the spoiler, the cohort of Satan whose name was Serpent, the very one who beguiled Eve; adders' poison is under their lips. Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked — the Watchers; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.... | |
 | Christina Rossetti - 2001 - 1284 pages
...illustration as 'a rosebush intertwined by a snake' ('Notes' 466). 6 O honey between serpent's teeth 'They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips' (Ps. 140:3); 'But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtihv, so your... | |
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... 6 I said unto the LORD, Thou art my GOD, hear the voice of my prayers, O LORD. 
