Psalms 120:4

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Psalms 120:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.

3 What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?

4 Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!

5 Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

6 Too long have I dwelt among those who hate peace.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 57:4

My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

Psalms 59:7

See what they spew from their mouths— sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”

Proverbs 11:9

With his mouth the ungodly man destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous are rescued.

Proverbs 11:12

Whoever shows contempt for his neighbor lacks judgment, but a man of understanding remains silent.

Proverbs 11:18

The wicked man earns an empty wage, but he who sows righteousness reaps a true reward.

Proverbs 16:27

A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.

Proverbs 18:8

The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.

Proverbs 18:21

Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

James 3:5

In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.

James 3:6

The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

James 3:7

All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man,

James 3:8

but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Psalms 7:13

He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.

Psalms 52:5

Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

Psalms 140:9

May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.

Psalms 140:11

May no slanderer be established in the land; may calamity hunt down the man of violence.

Deuteronomy 32:23

I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.

Deuteronomy 32:24

They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

Proverbs 12:22

Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.

Proverbs 19:5

A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.

Proverbs 19:9

A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who pours out lies will perish.

Revelation 21:8

But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”