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Psalms 52:2
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Your tongue devises destruction,Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.
Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.
Thy tongue imagineth wickednes: [and] deceaueth like a sharpe raser.
Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.
Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Like a sharp razor your tongue devises ruin, working deceit.
You are nothing but a hired killer, making plans to hurt people and making up lies!
Your tongue plots destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Thy tongue deuiseth mischiefes: like a sharpe rasor, working deceitfully.
The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Where as the goodnesse of God endureth yet daylie.
Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.
Your tongue devises much wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver.
You plan brutal crimes, and your lying words cut like a sharp razor.
when Do'eg from Edom came and told Sha'ul, "David has arrived at the house of Achimelekh":
Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.
It is like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Your tongue plots destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul,
Your tongue makes plans to destroy like a sharp knife, you who lie.
thy tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor thou hast wrought deceit.
Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.
Engulfing ruin, doth thy tongue devise, Like a whetted razor, working deceit;
(51-4) All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.
Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit.
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
You think up evil plans. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, making up lies.
You make plans to ruin others; your tongue is like a sharp razor. You are always inventing lies.
Like a sharpened razor, your tongue devises destruction, working treachery.
Al dai thi tunge thouyte vnriytfulnesse; as a scharp rasour thou hast do gile.
Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.
Contextual Overview
For the choir director: A psalm of David, regarding the time Doeg the Edomite said to Saul, "David has gone to see Ahimelech."
Why do you boast about your crimes, great warrior? Don't you realize God's justice continues forever? 2 All day long you plot destruction. Your tongue cuts like a sharp razor; you're an expert at telling lies. 3 You love evil more than good and lies more than truth. Interlude 4 You love to destroy others with your words, you liar! 5 But God will strike you down once and for all. He will pull you from your home and uproot you from the land of the living. InterludeBible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Thy: Psalms 50:19, Psalms 64:2-6, Psalms 140:2, Psalms 140:3, Proverbs 6:16-19, Proverbs 30:14, Jeremiah 9:3, Jeremiah 9:4, Jeremiah 18:18, Matthew 26:59, Acts 6:11-13, Acts 24:1, Acts 24:5, Revelation 12:10
like: Psalms 57:4, Psalms 59:7, Proverbs 12:18, Proverbs 18:21
working: Psalms 109:2, Psalms 120:2, 2 Corinthians 4:2, 2 Corinthians 11:13
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 11:14 - wrote a letter Ezra 4:13 - if this city Nehemiah 6:8 - thou feignest Job 15:5 - thou choosest Psalms 5:9 - For Psalms 25:19 - cruel hatred Psalms 26:10 - In Psalms 35:20 - but Proverbs 6:12 - walketh Proverbs 14:3 - the mouth Proverbs 15:4 - a breach Proverbs 16:27 - in Proverbs 18:8 - words Proverbs 21:10 - soul Proverbs 25:18 - General Proverbs 29:12 - General Ecclesiastes 10:11 - a babbler Jeremiah 37:14 - said Jeremiah 41:4 - after Ezekiel 11:2 - General Daniel 11:23 - work Hosea 7:16 - the rage Matthew 12:34 - how Matthew 15:11 - but Luke 6:45 - and an Acts 23:14 - General Romans 3:13 - with their Ephesians 4:29 - no 1 Timothy 3:8 - doubletongued James 3:5 - so
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs,.... Abundance of mischiefs, in a variety of ways, against many persons, even all good men. What properly belongs to the heart is here ascribed to the tongue; because, as Aben Ezra observes, it is the interpreter and discoverer of the thoughts of the heart: out of the abundance of that the tongue speaks and declares the mischief it has devised. Doeg intended mischief to David, when he spoke to Saul, 1 Samuel 22:9; so antichrist devises mischiefs against the saints of the most High, to wear them out, and thinks to change times and laws, Daniel 7:25;
like a sharp razor, working deceitfully; that is, his tongue was like a razor; the razor is but a small instrument, and the tongue is but a little member: the razor is a sharp and cutting one, and so is the tongue; and therefore compared to a sharp sword, Psalms 57:4; see
Jeremiah 18:18; the razor takes off the beard cleanly and wholly; Doeg's tongue was the cause of the utter ruin of Ahimelech's family and the city of Nob; and as a razor may be said to "work deceitfully", when it turns aside in the hand of him that useth it, and with the hair takes off more than it should, even skin and flesh, or cuts the man's throat; so in a deceitful and insidious manner did Doeg work the destruction of Ahimelech and the priests of the Lord.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs - The word rendered “mischiefs” means
(a) desire, cupidity: Proverbs 10:3; then
(b) fall, ruin, destruction, wickedness: Psalms 5:9; Psalms 38:12.
The meaning here is, that he made use of his tongue to ruin others. Compare Psalms 50:19. The particular thing referred to here is the fact that Doeg sought the ruin of others by giving “information” in regard to them. He “informed” Saul of what Ahimelech had done; he informed him where David had been, thus giving him, also, information in what way he might be found and apprehended. All this was “designed” to bring ruin upon David and his followers. It “actually” brought ruin on Ahimelech and those associated with him, 1 Samuel 22:17-19.
Like a sharp razor - See the notes at Isaiah 7:20. His slanders were like a sharp knife with which one stabs another. So we stay of a slanderer that he “stabs” another in the dark.
Working deceitfully - literally, making deceit. That is, it was by deceit that he accomplished his purpose. There was no open and fair dealing in what he did.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 52:2. Deviseth mischiefs — Lies and slanders proceeding from the tongue argue the desperate wickedness of the heart.
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. — Which instead of taking off the beard, cuts and wounds the flesh; or as the operator who, when pretending to trim the beard, cuts the throat.
