Psalm 52:4
New International Version
You love every harmful word, you deceitful tongue!

New Living Translation
You love to destroy others with your words, you liar!

English Standard Version
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.

Berean Standard Bible
You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.

King James Bible
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

New King James Version
You love all devouring words, You deceitful tongue.

New American Standard Bible
You love all words that devour, You deceitful tongue.

NASB 1995
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.

NASB 1977
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.

Legacy Standard Bible
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.

Amplified Bible
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.

Christian Standard Bible
You love any words that destroy, you treacherous tongue!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You love any words that destroy, you treacherous tongue!

American Standard Version
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You have loved all evil speaking and deceitful tongues.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou has loved all words of destruction, and a deceitful tongue.

Contemporary English Version
You love to say cruel things, and your words are a trap.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue.

English Revised Version
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You love every destructive accusation, you deceitful tongue!

Good News Translation
You love to hurt people with your words, you liar!

International Standard Version
You love all words that destroy, you deceitful tongue!

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou lovest all devouring words, The deceitful tongue.

Literal Standard Version
You have loved all devouring words, | O you deceitful tongue.

Majority Standard Bible
You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.

New American Bible
You love all the words that create confusion, you deceitful tongue.

NET Bible
You love to use all the words that destroy, and the tongue that deceives.

New Revised Standard Version
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.

New Heart English Bible
You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

World English Bible
You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Why Do You Boast of Evil?
3You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah 4You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue. 5Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah…

Cross References
Psalm 5:6
You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.

Psalm 101:7
No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who tells lies shall stand in my presence.

Psalm 109:2
For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

Psalm 120:2
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.

Psalm 120:3
What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?

Proverbs 12:19
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.


Treasury of Scripture

You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.

devouring

1 Samuel 22:18,19
And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod…

James 3:6-9
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell…

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Psalm 52
1. David, condemning the spitefulness of Doeg, prophesies his destruction
6. The righteous shall rejoice at it
8. David, upon his confidence in God's mercy, gives thanks














(4) Devouring words.--Literally, words of swallowing, such as swallow down (comp. Psalm 5:9, where the throat is called "an open sepulchre") a neighbour's life, honour, and goods.

Verse 4. - Thou lovest all devouring words. "Devouring words" are words that cause ruin and destruction. O thou deceitful tongue! or (as in the margin), and the deceitful tongue.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You love
אָהַ֥בְתָּ (’ā·haḇ·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 157: To have affection f

every
כָֽל־ (ḵāl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

word
דִּבְרֵי־ (diḇ·rê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

that devours,
בָ֗לַע (ḇā·la‘)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1105: A swallowing, devouring, a thing swallowed

O deceitful
מִרְמָֽה׃ (mir·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4820: Deceit, treachery

tongue.
לְשׁ֣וֹן (lə·šō·wn)
Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 3956: The tongue


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