Psalm 52:2

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Psalm 52:2

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.

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Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,

Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity.

Who have devised evils in the heart, All the day they assemble for wars.

These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul.

A generation -- swords are their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from among men.

And they bend their tongue, their bow is a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!

And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.

And the chief priests, and the elders, and all the council, were seeking false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death,

then they suborned men, saying -- 'We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.'

And after five days came down the chief priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator -- Tertullus, and they made manifest to the governor the things against Paul;

And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven, 'Now did come the salvation, and the power, and the reign, of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because cast down was the accuser of our brethren, who is accusing them before our God day and night;

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My soul is in the midst of lions, I lie down among flames -- sons of men, Their teeth are a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords are in their lips, for 'Who heareth?'

A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

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For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me -- A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!

O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!

but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

for those such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,

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A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, Is the man testifying against his neighbour a false testimony.

A ruler who is attending to lying words, All his ministers are wicked.

And He saith unto me, 'Son of man, these are the men who are devising iniquity, and who are giving evil counsel in this city;

who having come near to the chief priests and to the elders said, 'With an anathema we did anathematize ourselves -- to taste nothing till we have killed Paul;