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Psalms 52:3
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You love evil instead of good,lying instead of speaking truthfully.Selah
You love evil more than good, Lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah
You love wrong more than right and lies more than truth. Selah
You love evil more than good, lies more than speaking the truth. (Selah)
You love evil more than good, And falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.
You love evil more than good, Lies more than speaking what is right. Selah
You love evil more than good, Lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
Thou doest loue euill more then good, and lies more then to speake the trueth. Selah.
You love evil more than good,Falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.
You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah
You would rather do evil than good, and tell lies than speak the truth.
Why do you boast of your evil, you tyrant, when God's mercy is present every day?
Thou hast loved evil rather than good, lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
You love evil more than goodness. You love lies more than truth. Selah
You love evil more than good, and lying rather than speaking righteousness.
You love evil more than good and falsehood more than truth.
You love evil more than good, a lie more than speaking what is right. Selah
You love evil more than good, lying more than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Thy tonge ymagineth wickednesse, and with lyes it cutteth like a sharpe rasoure.
Thou lovest evil more than good, And lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah
You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)
Why boastest thou thyself of evil, O mighty man? The mercy of God endureth continually.
Thou louest euill more then good; and lying rather then to speake righteousnesse. Selah.
Thou hast loued vngratiousnes more then goodnes: and to talke of falshood more then of righteousnes. Selah.
Thou hast loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause.
Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah
Thou louedist malice more than benygnite; `thou louedist wickidnesse more than to speke equite.
You love evil more than good, And lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Thou lovest evil more than good; [and] lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
You love evil more than good, Lying rather than speaking righteousness.Selah
You love evil more than good and lies more than truth. Interlude
You love what is bad more than what is good, and you speak lies more than you speak the truth.
You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking the truth. Selah
Thou lovest Evil more than good, Falsehood, more than speaking righteousness. Selah.
(51-5) Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.
You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking the truth. [Selah]
Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah.
You love evil more than good, Falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
lovest: Jeremiah 4:22, Micah 3:2, Romans 1:25, 2 Timothy 3:4
lying: Psalms 62:4, Jeremiah 9:3-5, Jeremiah 9:8, John 8:44, Revelation 22:15
Reciprocal: Exodus 10:11 - for that Psalms 50:19 - givest Psalms 140:3 - sharpened Proverbs 21:10 - soul Mark 14:1 - by Ephesians 4:25 - putting 2 Thessalonians 2:12 - but
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou lovest evil more than good,.... Indeed not good at all; such comparatives being strong negatives; see Psalms 118:8; a wicked man loves evil, and nothing else; his carnal mind being enmity to all that is good
[and] lying rather than to speak righteousness; as appears by his affirming that Ahimelech inquired of the Lord for David, when he did not, 1 Samuel 22:10; and by suffering some things to pass for truths which were falsehoods, when it lay in his power to have disproved them: and such a lover of lies is antichrist; see 1 Timothy 4:2.
Selah; on this word, 1 Timothy 4:2- :. The Targum renders the word "Selah" here "for ever", as in Psalms 52:5.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Thou lovest evil more than good - Thou dost prefer to do injury to others, rather than to do them good. In the case referred to, instead of aiding the innocent, the persecuted, and the wronged, he had attempted to reveal the place where he might be found, and where an enraged enemy might have an opportunity of wreaking his vengeance upon him.
And lying rather than to speak righteousness - He preferred a lie to the truth; and, when he supposed that his own interest would be subserved by it, he preferred a falsehood that would promote that interest, rather than a simple statement of the truth. The “lying” in this case was that which was “implied” in his being desirous of giving up David, or betraying him to Saul - as if David was a bad man, and as if the suspicions of Saul were wellfounded. He preferred to give his countenance to a falsehood in regard to him, rather than to state the exact truth in reference to his character. His conduct in this was strongly in contrast with that of Ahimelech, who, when arraigned before Saul, declared his belief that David was innocent; his firm conviction that David was true and loyal. “For” that fidelity he lost his life, 1 Samuel 22:14. Doeg was willing to lend countenance to the suspicions of Saul, and practically to represent David as a traitor to the king. The word “Selah” here is doubtless a mere musical pause. See the notes at Psalms 3:2. It determines nothing in regard to the sense of the passage.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 52:3. Thou lovest evil — This was a finished character. Let us note the particulars:
1. He boasted in the power to do evil.
2. His tongue devised, studied, planned, and spoke mischiefs.
3. He was a deceitful worker.
4. He loved evil and not good.
5. He loved lying; his delight was in falsity.
6. Every word that tended to the destruction of others he loved.
7. His tongue was deceitful; he pretended friendship while his heart was full of enmity, Psalms 52:1-4. Now behold the punishment: -
