Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version You who practice deceit, your tongue plots destruction; it is like a sharpened razor. New Living Translation All day long you plot destruction. Your tongue cuts like a sharp razor; you’re an expert at telling lies. English Standard Version Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit. Berean Standard Bible Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. King James Bible Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully. New King James Version Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. New American Standard Bible Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit. NASB 1995 Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit. NASB 1977 Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit. Legacy Standard Bible Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit. Amplified Bible Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Christian Standard Bible Like a sharpened razor, your tongue devises destruction, working treachery. Holman Christian Standard Bible Like a sharpened razor, your tongue devises destruction, working treachery. American Standard Version Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Your tongue conceives evil and, like a sharpened razor, you have worked deceit. Brenton Septuagint Translation thy tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor thou hast wrought deceit. Contemporary English Version You plan brutal crimes, and your lying words cut like a sharp razor. Douay-Rheims Bible All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit. English Revised Version Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. GOD'S WORD® Translation Your tongue makes up threats. It's like a sharp razor, you master of deceit. Good News Translation You make plans to ruin others; your tongue is like a sharp razor. You are always inventing lies. International Standard Version Your tongue, like a sharp razor, devises wicked things and crafts treachery. JPS Tanakh 1917 Thy tongue deviseth destruction; Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Literal Standard Version Your tongue devises mischiefs, | Like a sharp razor, working deceit. Majority Standard Bible Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. New American Bible All day long you are thinking up intrigues; your tongue is like a sharpened razor, you worker of deceit. NET Bible Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver. New Revised Standard Version you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery. New Heart English Bible Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Webster's Bible Translation Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. World English Bible Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Young's Literal Translation Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Why Do You Boast of Evil?1For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long. 2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. 3You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah… Cross References Nehemiah 6:8 Then I sent him this reply: "There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind." Psalm 5:9 For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. Psalm 50:19 You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit. Psalm 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. Psalm 59:7 See what they spew from their mouths--sharp words from their lips: "For who can hear us?" Psalm 101:7 No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who tells lies shall stand in my presence. Psalm 140:2 who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long. Treasury of Scripture The tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Thy Psalm 50:19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. Psalm 64:2-6 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity: … Psalm 140:2,3 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war… like Psalm 57:4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. Psalm 59:7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear? Proverbs 12:18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. working Psalm 109:2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. Psalm 120:2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. 2 Corinthians 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. Jump to Previous Blade Deceit Deceitfully Destruction Devises Deviseth Mischiefs Mischievous Plots Plotting Practice Practising Purposing Razor Sharp Sharpened Tongue Treachery Using Wickedness Worker WorkingJump to Next Blade Deceit Deceitfully Destruction Devises Deviseth Mischiefs Mischievous Plots Plotting Practice Practising Purposing Razor Sharp Sharpened Tongue Treachery Using Wickedness Worker WorkingPsalm 52 1. David, condemning the spitefulness of Doeg, prophesies his destruction6. The righteous shall rejoice at it 8. David, upon his confidence in God's mercy, gives thanks (2) Working deceitfully.--Better, working guile. (For the metaphor, see Psalm 55:21; Psalm 57:4, &c)Verse 2. - Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; or, malignities - evils of the worst kind. It was Doeg's "tongue" that brought about the entire ghastly massacre (see 1 Samuel 22:9, 10). Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Doeg had "worked deceitfully," since he had not told Saul the circumstances that made Ahimelech's giving aid to David no disloyalty to the king (1 Samuel 21:2, 8). The suppressio veri is a suggestio falsi. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Your tongueלְשׁוֹנֶ֑ךָ (lə·šō·w·ne·ḵā) Noun - common singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 3956: The tongue devises תַּחְשֹׁ֣ב (taḥ·šōḇ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 2803: To think, account destruction הַ֭וּוֹת (haw·wō·wṯ) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 1942: Desire, chasm, destruction like a sharpened מְ֝לֻטָּ֗שׁ (mə·luṭ·ṭāš) Verb - Pual - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 3913: To hammer out, to sharpen razor, כְּתַ֥עַר (kə·ṯa·‘ar) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 8593: A knife, razor, a scabbard O worker עֹשֵׂ֥ה (‘ō·śêh) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct Strong's 6213: To do, make of deceit. רְמִיָּֽה׃ (rə·mî·yāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 7423: Remissness, treachery Links Psalm 52:2 NIVPsalm 52:2 NLT Psalm 52:2 ESV Psalm 52:2 NASB Psalm 52:2 KJV Psalm 52:2 BibleApps.com Psalm 52:2 Biblia Paralela Psalm 52:2 Chinese Bible Psalm 52:2 French Bible Psalm 52:2 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 52:2 Your tongue plots destruction like a sharp (Psalm Ps Psa.) |
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