| Geneva Study Bible Thy tongue deviseth {b} mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. (b) Your malice moves you by crafty flattery and lies to accuse and destroy the innocents. Wesley's Notes 52:2 Deviseth - Expresses what thy wicked mind had devised. Deceitfully - Doeg pretended only to vindicate himself from disloyalty, 1Sam 22:8, but he really intended to expose the priests, to the king's fury. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 2. tongue-for self. mischiefs-evil to others (Ps 5:9; 38:12). working deceitfully-(Ps 10:7), as a keen, smoothly moving razor, cutting quietly, but deeply. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 52:1-5 Those that glory in sin, glory in their shame. The patience and forbearance of God are abused by sinners, to the hardening of their hearts in their wicked ways. But the enemies in vain boast in their mischief, while we have God's mercy to trust in. It will not save us from the guilt of lying, to be able to say, there was some truth in what we said, if we make it appear otherwise than it was. The more there is of craft and contrivance in any wickedness, the more there is of Satan in it. When good men die, they are transplanted from the land of the living on earth, to heaven, the garden of the Lord, where they shall take root for ever; but when wicked men die, they are rooted out, to perish for ever. The believer sees that God will destroy those who make not him their strength. | 
