KJV King James Version
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.
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Psalm 52:2
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
WEB World English Bible
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
ASV American Standard Version
Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
Surrounding context — Psalm 52
1 To the chief Musician, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God [endureth] continually.
2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.
3 Thou lovest evil more than good; [and] lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O [thou] deceitful tongue.
5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of [thy] dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
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Proverbs 18:21Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.Proverbs 6:16-19These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him:Proverbs 12:18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.Psalm 57:4My 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.Jeremiah 9:3-4And 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.Psalm 59:7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their lips: for who, [say they], doth hear?Acts 24:1And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and [with] a certain orator [named] Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.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.Psalm 50:19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.Matthew 26:59Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;Psalm 64:2-6Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:Acts 6:11-13Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and [against] God.Acts 24:5For 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:2 Corinthians 4:2But 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.Psalm 109:2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.Jeremiah 18:18Then 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.Psalm 120:2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, [and] from a deceitful tongue.Psalm 140:2-3Which imagine mischiefs in [their] heart; continually are they gathered together [for] war.
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