Psalms 52:2

In 11 translations

BSB

Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

KJV

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

WEB

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

ASV

Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

LSV

Your tongue devises mischiefs, || Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

YLT

Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

DBY

Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.

DRC51:4

All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.

GNV

Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.

JPS52:4

Thy tongue deviseth destruction; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

LXXE51:4

thy tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor thou hast wrought deceit.

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WLC52:4

הַ֭וּוֹת תַּחְשֹׁ֣ב לְשׁוֹנֶ֑ךָ כְּתַ֥עַר מְ֝לֻטָּ֗שׁ עֹשֵׂ֥ה רְמִיָּֽה׃KJV:Ps.52.2

LXX-Br51:4

ἀδικίαν ἐλογίσατο ἡ γλῶσσά σου· ὡσεὶ ξυρὸν ἠκονημένον ἐποίησας δόλον.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 18:21Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
• Proverbs 6:16–19There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil, a false…
• Psalms 57:4My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
• Proverbs 12:18Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
• Jeremiah 9:3–4“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD. “Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not…
• Psalms 59:7See what they spew from their mouths— sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”
• Psalms 120:2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.
• Psalms 109:2For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.
• Acts 6:11–13Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.” So they stirred up the people, elders, and scribes and confronted Stephen. They seized him and brought him…
• Acts 24:5We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,
• Psalms 50:19You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.
• 2 Corinthians 4:2Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in…
• Psalms 140:2–3who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long. They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
• Proverbs 30:14there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
• 2 Corinthians 11:13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
• Jeremiah 18:18Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his…

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