Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.
--------------------
Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.
--------------------
Psalms 64:3
Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;
Psalms 64:4
So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen.
Psalms 52:2
Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.
Psalms 59:7
See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?
James 3:8
But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.
Psalms 120:3
What punishment will he give you? what more will he do to you, you false tongue?
Psalms 120:4
Sharp arrows of the strong, and burning fire.
Psalms 52:4
Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.
1 Samuel 24:10
Look! you have seen today how the Lord gave you up into my hands even now in the hollow of the rocks: and some would have had me put you to death, but I had pity on you: for I said, Never will my hand be lifted up against my lord, who has been marked with the holy oil.
Psalms 12:3
The smooth lips and the tongue of pride will be cut off by the Lord.
Job 5:15
But he keeps safe from their sword those who have no father, and the poor from the power of the strong.
Job 5:21
He will keep you safe from the evil tongue; and you will have no fear of wasting when it comes.
Psalms 109:3
Words of hate are round about me; they have made war against me without cause.
Isaiah 54:17
No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.
-----
Psalms 55:21
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords.
Proverbs 12:18
There are some whose uncontrolled talk is like the wounds of a sword, but the tongue of the wise makes one well again.
James 3:5
Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.
James 3:7
For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority;
Psalms 52:3
You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)
Jeremiah 9:3
Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.
Psalms 140:3
Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)
Psalms 12:4
They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us?
Psalms 5:9
For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.
Psalms 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.
Psalms 28:3
Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.
Psalms 50:19
You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.
Psalms 64:5
They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,
Psalms 64:6
Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep.
-----
Psalms 57:1
To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. When he went in flight from Saul, in the hole of the rock. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; for the hope of my soul is in you: I will keep myself safely under the shade of your wings, till these troubles are past.
Psalms 57:2
I will send up my cry to the Most High God; to God who does all things for me.
Psalms 57:3
He will send from heaven, and take me from the power of him whose desire is for my destruction. God will send out his mercy and his good faith.
Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.
Psalms 57:5
O God, be lifted up higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.
Psalms 57:6
They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)
Psalms 56:2
My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.
-----
Psalms 58:6
O God, let their teeth be broken in their mouths; let the great teeth of the young lions be pulled out, O Lord.
Proverbs 30:14
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.
Psalms 10:9
He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.
Job 29:17
By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.
Psalms 3:7
Come to me, Lord; keep me safe, O my God; for you have given all my haters blows on their face-bones; the teeth of the evil-doers have been broken by you.
Psalms 4:2
O you sons of men, how long will you go on turning my glory into shame? how long will you give your love to foolish things, going after what is false? (Selah.)
Psalms 58:1
To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men?
Daniel 7:7
After this, in my vision of the night, I saw a fourth beast, a thing causing fear and very troubling, full of power and very strong; and it had great iron teeth: it took its food, crushing some of it to bits and stamping down the rest with its feet: it was different from all the beasts before it; and it had ten horns.
Joel 1:6
For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.
Revelation 9:8
And they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
-----
Job 4:10
Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.
Job 4:11
The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.
Proverbs 28:15
Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.
Ezekiel 38:13
Sheba, and Dedan and her traders, Tarshish with all her traders, will say to you, Have you come to take our goods? have you got your armies together to take away our property by force? to take away silver and gold, cattle and goods, to go off with great wealth?
Jeremiah 50:17
Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.
Ezekiel 19:2
What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.
Ezekiel 19:3
And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.
Nahum 2:11
Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?
-----
Psalms 22:12
A great herd of oxen is round me: I am shut in by the strong oxen of Bashan.
Psalms 22:13
I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.
Psalms 7:2
So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.
Psalms 22:21
Be my saviour from the lion's mouth; let me go free from the horns of the cruel oxen.
Psalms 35:17
Lord, how long will you be looking on? take my soul from their destruction, my life from the lions.
Luke 23:5
But they became more violent than before, saying, He has made trouble among the people, teaching through all Judaea from Galilee to this place.
Luke 23:23
But they went on crying out loudly, Let him be put to death on the cross. And they had their way.
Psalms 3:1
A Psalm. Of David. When he went in flight from Absalom his son. Lord, how greatly are they increased who make attacks on me! in great numbers they come against me.
Psalms 17:12
Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.
Psalms 22:16
Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.
Psalms 38:19
But they are strong who have hate for me without cause: those who are against me falsely are increased in numbers.
Psalms 142:6
Give ear to my cry, for I am made very low: take me out of the hands of my haters, for they are stronger than I.
-----
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.
Proverbs 25:18
One who gives false witness against his neighbour is a hammer and a sword and a sharp arrow.
Jeremiah 9:5
Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.
Jeremiah 9:8
His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.
Revelation 1:16
And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword: and his face was like the sun shining in its strength.
Psalms 11:2
See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart.
Psalms 31:13
False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.
Psalms 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;
Psalms 120:1
A Song of the going up. In my trouble my cry went up to the Lord, and he gave me an answer.
Proverbs 16:27
A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.
Matthew 12:34
You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.
Luke 2:35
(And a sword will go through your heart;) so that the secret thoughts of men may come to light.
-----
Titus 3:3
For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.
Genesis 31:1
Now it came to the ears of Jacob that Laban's sons were saying, Jacob has taken away all our father's property, and in this way he has got all this wealth.
Job 31:31
If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?
Proverbs 14:30
A quiet mind is the life of the body, but envy is a disease in the bones.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
-----
Song of Solomon 2:2
As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters.
-----
Jeremiah 1:17
So make yourself ready, and go and say to them everything I give you orders to say: do not be overcome by fear of them, or I will send fear on you before them.
Public Domain