13 For I hear many whispering,(A)
    “Terror on every side!”(B)
They conspire against me(C)
    and plot to take my life.(D)

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13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

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21 They sneer(A) at me and say, “Aha! Aha!(B)
    With our own eyes we have seen it.”

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21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

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My enemies say of me in malice,
    “When will he die and his name perish?(A)

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Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

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They sharpen their tongues like swords(A)
    and aim cruel words like deadly arrows.(B)

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Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

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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]

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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.

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

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