Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.

King James Version

Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

Holman Bible

You love any words that destroy,
you treacherous tongue!

International Standard Version

You love all words that destroy, you deceitful tongue!

A Conservative Version

Thou love all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

American Standard Version

Thou lovest all devouring words, thou deceitful tongue.

Amplified


You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.

Bible in Basic English

Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.

Darby Translation

Thou hast loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!

Julia Smith Translation

Thou lovedst all words of destruction, a tongue of deceit

King James 2000

You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue,

Modern King James verseion

You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou lovest to speak all words that may do hurt, O thou false tongue.

NET Bible

You love to use all the words that destroy, and the tongue that deceives.

New Heart English Bible

You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

The Emphasized Bible

Thou lovest all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!

Webster

Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

World English Bible

You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

References

Fausets

Context Readings

God Judges The Proud

3 You love evil more than good,
Falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.
4 You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.
5 But God will break you down forever;
He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

Cross References

1 Samuel 22:18-19

Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn around and attack the priests.” And Doeg the Edomite turned around and attacked the priests, and he killed that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

Psalm 120:3

What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you,
You deceitful tongue?

James 3:6-9

And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell.

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