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King James Version

Psalms 52:4

Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Falsehood;   Hypocrisy;   Rich, the;   Slander;   Speaking;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Destruction;   Evil;   Mischief;   Righteousness;   Speech/communication;   Strength;   Trust;   Wealth;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Slander;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Doeg;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hope;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Doeg;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Slothful;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Doeg;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Doeg;   God;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Doeg;   Psalms, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - God;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You love any words that destroy,you treacherous tongue!
Hebrew Names Version
You love all devouring words, You deceitful tongue.
English Standard Version
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
New Century Version
You love words that bite and tongues that lie.
New English Translation
You love to use all the words that destroy, and the tongue that deceives.
Amplified Bible
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
New American Standard Bible
You love all words that devour, You deceitful tongue.
World English Bible
You love all devouring words, You deceitful tongue.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou louest all wordes that may destroye, O deceitfull tongue!
Legacy Standard Bible
You love all words that devour,O deceitful tongue.
Berean Standard Bible
You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
Contemporary English Version
You love to say cruel things, and your words are a trap.
Complete Jewish Bible
Your tongue, as sharp as a razor, plots destruction and works deception.
Darby Translation
Thou hast loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!
Easy-to-Read Version
You and your lying tongue love to hurt people.
George Lamsa Translation
You love all that speak evil and all deceitful tongues;
Good News Translation
You love to hurt people with your words, you liar!
Lexham English Bible
You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue,
Literal Translation
You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou louest vngraciousnesse more the good, to talke of lyes more then rightuousnesse.
American Standard Version
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
Bible in Basic English
Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thy tongue deviseth destruction; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
King James Version (1611)
Thou louest all deuouring words, O thou deceitfull tongue.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou hast loued to speake all wordes that may do hurt: O thou deceiptfull tongue.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou has loved all words of destruction, and a deceitful tongue.
English Revised Version
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou louedist alle wordis of casting doun; with a gileful tunge.
Update Bible Version
You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou lovest all devouring words, O [thou] deceitful tongue.
New King James Version
You love all devouring words, You deceitful tongue.
New Living Translation
You love to destroy others with your words, you liar!
New Life Bible
You love all words that destroy, O lying tongue.
New Revised Standard
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou lovest all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!
Douay-Rheims Bible
(51-6) Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue.
Revised Standard Version
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.

Contextual Overview

1 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually. 2 The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. 4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue. 5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

devouring: 1 Samuel 22:18, 1 Samuel 22:19, James 3:6-9

O thou: or, and the

Reciprocal: Exodus 10:11 - for that Psalms 10:7 - and deceit Psalms 73:9 - tongue Psalms 109:17 - General 2 Thessalonians 2:12 - but

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou lovest all devouring words,.... Or "words of swallowing up" y; such as lies, calumnies, and detractions are, which devour the characters and reputations of men, and are the cause sometimes of their utter ruin and destruction; of the devouring and blasphemous words of antichrist see Revelation 13:5;

O [thou] deceitful tongue; Revelation 13:5- :.

y דברי בלע "verba absorptionis", Vatablus, Gejerus, Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou lovest all devouring words - All words that tend to devour or “swallow up” reputation and happiness. Luther, “Thou speakest gladly all things (anything) that will serve to destruction.” Anything, everything, that will serve to ruin people. The word rendered “devouring” - בלע bela‛ - occurs only here and in Jeremiah 51:44, though the verb from which it is derived occurs frequently: Isaiah 28:4; Exodus 7:12; Jonah 2:1 Jon 1:17; Genesis 41:7, Genesis 41:24, et al. The verb means to swallow; and then, to consume or destroy.

O thou deceitful tongue - Margin, “and the deceitful tongue.” The sense is best expressed in the text. It is an address to the tongue as loving deceit or fraud.


 
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