Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Your tongue devises evil, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.
Holman Bible
your tongue devises destruction,
working treachery.
International Standard Version
Your tongue, like a sharp razor, devises wicked things and crafts treachery.
A Conservative Version
Thy tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
American Standard Version
Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Amplified
Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Bible in Basic English
Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.
Darby Translation
Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.
Julia Smith Translation
Thy tongue will purpose mischief as a razor being sharpened, working deceit.
King James 2000
Your tongue devises evil; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thy tongue imagineth wickedness, and with lies it cutteth like a sharp razor.
NET Bible
Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver.
New Heart English Bible
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
The Emphasized Bible
Engulfing ruin, doth thy tongue devise, Like a whetted razor, working deceit;
Webster
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
World English Bible
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Youngs Literal Translation
Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
Themes
Deception » Instances of » Doeg
Evil » Who loves evil more than good
Mischief » Who speaks of mischief
Speech/communication » Those that speak deceitfully
Strength » Those that do not make God their strength
References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 52:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Judges The Proud
1 To the Chief Musician. A contemplation. A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you boast yourself in evil, O mighty man? The mercy of God endures forever. 2 Your tongue devises evil, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 You love evil more than good, and lying more than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Cross References
Psalm 57:4
My soul is among lions; I lie among those on fire, the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalm 50:19
You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
Psalm 59:7
Behold, they bellow out with their mouth; swords are in their lips; for they say, Who hears?
Psalm 64:2-6
Hide me from the council of those who injure, from the rebelling of the workers of iniquity,
Psalm 109:2
for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; they spoke against me with a lying tongue.
Psalm 120:2
Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
Psalm 140:2-3
who devised evil things in the heart; they are always gathered for war.
Proverbs 6:16-19
These six Jehovah hates; yea, seven are hateful to his soul:
Proverbs 12:18
There are those who speak like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.
Proverbs 30:14
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaw teeth like 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 mighty for the truth on the earth; for they go from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, Come and let us plot schemes against Jeremiah. For the Law shall not perish from the priest, nor wisdom from the wise, nor the Word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.
Matthew 26:59
And the chief priests and the elders and all the sanhedrin sought false witness against Jesus, in order to put Him to death.
Acts 6:11-13
And they induced men to be saying, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.
Acts 24:1
And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders and with a certain orator, Tertullus, who made a statement to the governor against Paul.
Acts 24:5
For we have found this man pestilent, and moving rebellion among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,
2 Corinthians 4:2
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the Word of God, but by the revelation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such ones are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
Revelation 12:10
And I heard a great voice saying in Heaven, Now has come the salvation and power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers is cast down, who accused them before our God day and night.