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Psalms 52:4

Words and speech

2 Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

3 You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah

You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.

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

6 The righteous will see and fear; they will mock the evildoer, saying,

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BSB
You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
KJV
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
WEB
You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
ASV
Thou lovest all devouring words, thou deceitful tongue.
DARBY
Thou hast loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!
BLB
You love all devouring words, O tongue of deceit!
ÅB
Du elsker hvert ord som volder ødeleggelse, du svikaktige tunge!
OTB
Du gleder deg i ord som fortærer,
Du svikefulle tunge.
B1930
Du elsker hvert ord som volder ødeleggelse, du svikaktige tunge!

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Psalms 120:3

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

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  • James 3:6–9

    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.

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  • 1 Samuel 22:18–19

    So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

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