Catholic Public Domain Version
"O Lord, station a guard over my mouth and a door enclosing my lips. "
— Psalms 140:3, Catholic Public Domain Version
“They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.”
“They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders’ poison is under their lips. [Selah”
“They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.”
“Their tongues wound like a serpent; a viper’s venom is behind their lips.(Selah)”
“Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.”
“Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)”
“They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.”
A Psalm of David. O Lord, I have cried out to you, hear me. Attend to my voice, when I cry out to you.
Let my prayer be guided like incense in your sight: the lifting up of my hands, like the evening sacrifice.
O Lord, station a guard over my mouth and a door enclosing my lips.
Do not turn aside my heart to words of malice, to making excuses for sins, with men who work iniquity; and I will not communicate, even with the best of them.
The just one will correct me with mercy, and he will rebuke me. But do not allow the oil of the sinner to fatten my head. For my prayer will still be toward their good will.
Their judges have been engulfed, joined to the rocks. They will hear my words, which have prevailed,