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Why Do You Boast of Evil?

Psalms 52:4

In 11 translations

BSB
You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
KJV
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.O thou…: or, and the deceitful tongue
WEB
You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
ASV
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
LSV
You have loved all devouring words, || O you deceitful tongue.
YLT
Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
DBY
Thou hast loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!
DRC51:6
Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue.
GNV
Thou louest all wordes that may destroye, O deceitfull tongue!
JPS52:6
Thou lovest all devouring words, the deceitful tongue.
LXXE51:6
Thou hast loved all words of destruction, and a deceitful tongue.

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Original-language editions

WLC52:6
אָהַ֥בְתָּ כָֽל־דִּבְרֵי־בָ֗לַע לְשׁ֣וֹן מִרְמָֽה׃KJV:Ps.52.4
LXX-Br51:6
Ἠγάπησας πάντα τὰ ῥήματα καταποντισμοῦ, γλῶσσαν δολίαν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 120:3What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?
  • James 3:6–9The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles,…
  • 1 Samuel 22:18–19So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. He also put to the…

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 52:6 in some Bibles
  • 52:4 in most Bibles

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