Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Thou lovest 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.
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.
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 lovest Evil more than good, Falsehood, more than speaking righteousness. Selah. 4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O deceitful tongue! 5 GOD also, will break thee down utterly, He will snatch thee up and tear thee away tentless, And uproot thee, out of the land of the living. Selah.
Phrases
Cross References
1 Samuel 22:18-19
Then said the king to Doeg, Turn, thou, and fall upon the priests. So Doeg the Edomite turned, and, himself, fell upon the priests, and put to death, that day, four score and five men bearing an ephod of linen;
Psalm 120:3
What shall be given to thee, and what shall be added to thee, thou deceitful tongue?
James 3:6-9
And, the tongue, is a fire, - as , the world of unrighteousness, the tongue, becometh fixed among our members, that which defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the wheel of our natural life, and is set on fire, by gehenna!