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They make their tongues as sharp as a snake’s fang.
    Their lips hide the venom of poisonous snakes. Selah

Protect me from the hands of wicked people, O Yahweh.
    Keep me safe from violent people.
    They try to trip me.
Arrogant people have laid a trap for me.
    They have spread out a net with ropes.
    They have set traps for me along the road. Selah

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They make their tongues as sharp as(A) a serpent’s;
    the poison of vipers(B) is on their lips.[a]

Keep me safe,(C) Lord, from the hands of the wicked;(D)
    protect me from the violent,
    who devise ways to trip my feet.
The arrogant have hidden a snare(E) for me;
    they have spread out the cords of their net(F)
    and have set traps(G) for me along my path.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 140:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 5 and 8.