Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
You love evil more than good, a lie more than speaking {what is right}. Selah
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Holman Bible
lying instead of speaking truthfully.
International Standard Version
You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking uprightly. Interlude
A Conservative Version
Thou love evil more than good, and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
American Standard Version
Thou lovest evil more than good, And lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah
Amplified
You love evil more than good,
And falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.
Bible in Basic English
You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)
Darby Translation
Thou hast loved evil rather than good, lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou lovedst evil above good; falsehood more than speaking justice. Silence.
King James 2000
You love evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Modern King James verseion
You love evil more than good, and lying more than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou lovest ungraciousness more than good, to talk of lies more than righteousness. Selah.
NET Bible
You love evil more than good, lies more than speaking the truth. (Selah)
New Heart English Bible
You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
The Emphasized Bible
Thou lovest Evil more than good, Falsehood, more than speaking righteousness. Selah.
Webster
Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
World English Bible
You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah.
Themes
Error » Known to God » Loved by men
Evil » Who loves evil more than good
Mischief » Who speaks of mischief
Righteousness » The wicked » Love lying rather than
Speech/communication » Those that speak deceitfully
Strength » Those that do not make God their strength
Transgression » Known to God » Loved by men
Trust » Those that trust in wealth
Wealth » Those that trust in wealth
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Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 52:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Judges The Proud
2 Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit. 3 You love evil more than good, a lie more than speaking {what is right}. Selah 4 You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue,
Names
Cross References
Psalm 62:4
They only plan to thrust [him] down from his high position; they are pleased [with] deception. With their mouths they bless, but {inwardly} they curse. Selah
Jeremiah 4:22
"For my people [are] foolish, they have not known me. They [are] foolish children, and they do not have insight. They [are] skillful at doing evil, and they do not know [how] to do good."
Jeremiah 9:3-5
And they bend their tongue [like] their bow, [for] falsehood and not truth is superior in the land, for they go forth from evil to evil, and they do not know me," {declares} Yahweh.
Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongue [is] a murderous arrow, it speaks deceit. With his mouth he speaks peace with his neighbor, but in his inner parts he sets up his ambush.
Micah 3:2
[Those of you who are] haters of good and lovers of evil, [who] tear their skin from them and their flesh from their bones,
John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father! That one was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own [nature], because he is a liar and the father {of lies}.
Romans 1:25
who exchanged the truth of God with a lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed for eternity. Amen.
2 Timothy 3:4
traitors, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God,
Revelation 22:15
Outside [are] the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral people and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone who loves and who practices falsehood.