Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Thou hast loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
Holman Bible
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.
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.
Themes
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
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 52:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Judges The Proud
3 Thou hast loved evil rather than good, lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. 4 Thou hast loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongue! 5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever; he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Phrases
Cross References
1 Samuel 22:18-19
And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall on the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and fell on the priests, and put to death that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.
Psalm 120:3
What shall be given unto thee, what shall be added unto thee, thou deceitful tongue?
James 3:6-9
and the tongue is fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell.