Psalms 52:2New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Engulfing ruin, doth thy tongue devise, Like a whetted razor, working deceit;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Thy tongue deuiseth mischiefes: like a sharpe rasor, working deceitfully.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— It is like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— thy tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor thou hast wrought deceit.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. |
Thy tongue
3956 {3956} Primeלָשׁוֹןlashown{law-shone'}
From H3960; the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water).
deviseth
2803 {2803} Primeחָשַׁבchashab{khaw-shab'}
A primitive root; properly to plait or interpenetrate, that is, (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
mischiefs;
1942 {1942} Primeהַוָּהhavvah{hav-vaw'}
From H1933 (in the sense of eagerly coveting and rushing upon; by implication of falling); desire; also ruin.
like a sharp
3913 {3913} Primeלָטַשׁlatash{law-tash'}
A primitive root; properly to hammer out (an edge), that is, to sharpen.
z8794 <8794> Grammar
Stem - Pual (See H8849) Mood - Participle (See H8813) Count - 194
razor,
8593 {8593} Primeתַּעַרta`ar{tah'-ar}
From H6168; a knife or razor (as making bare); also a scabbard (as being bare, that is, empty).
working
6213 {6213} Primeעָשָׂה`asah{aw-saw'}
A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.
z8802 <8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Participle Active (See H8814) Count - 5386
deceitfully.
7423 {7423} Primeרְמִיָּהr@miyah{rem-ee-yaw'}
From H7411; remissness, treachery. |
Psalms 52:2
_ _ tongue — for self.
_ _ mischiefs — evil to others (Psalms 5:9; Psalms 38:12).
_ _ working deceitfully — (Psalms 10:7), as a keen, smoothly moving razor, cutting quietly, but deeply. |
Psalms 52:2
Deviseth — Expresses what thy wicked mind had devised. Deceitfully — Doeg pretended only to vindicate himself from disloyalty, 1 Samuel 22:8, but he really intended to expose the priests, to the king's fury. |
Psalms 52:2
Thy tongue deviseth (b) mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
(b) Your malice moves you by crafty flattery and lies to accuse and destroy the innocents. |
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Psalms 50:19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Psalms 64:2-6 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity: ... They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward [thought] of every one [of them], and the heart, [is] deep.
Psalms 140:2-3 Which imagine mischiefs in [their] heart; continually are they gathered together [for] war. ... They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison [is] under their lips. Selah.
Proverbs 6:16-19 These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him: ... A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Proverbs 30:14 [There is] a generation, whose teeth [are as] swords, and their jaw teeth [as] knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from [among] men.
Jeremiah 9:3-4 And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. ... Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
Jeremiah 18:18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Matthew 26:59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
Acts 6:11-13 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and [against] God. ... And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
Acts 24:1 And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and [with] a certain orator [named] Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.
Acts 24:5 For we have found this man [a] pestilent [fellow], and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
Revelation 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
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Psalms 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.
Psalms 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.
Proverbs 18:21 Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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Psalms 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.
Psalms 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.
2 Corinthians 11:13 For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
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