the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Psalms 52:4
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You love all words that devour,O deceitful tongue.
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
Thou hast loued to speake all wordes that may do hurt: O thou deceiptfull tongue.
Thou hast loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!
You love all devouring words, You deceitful tongue.
You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!
You and your lying tongue love to hurt people.
You love all devouring words, You deceitful tongue.
Thou louest all deuouring words, O thou deceitfull tongue.
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
Thou louest vngraciousnesse more the good, to talke of lyes more then rightuousnesse.
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.
You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.
Thou lovest all devouring words, O [thou] deceitful tongue.
You love to use all the words that destroy, and the tongue that deceives.
You love to say cruel things, and your words are a trap.
Your tongue, as sharp as a razor, plots destruction and works deception.
Thou louest all wordes that may destroye, O deceitfull tongue!
You love all that speak evil and all deceitful tongues;
You love all devouring words, You deceitful tongue.
Thy tongue deviseth destruction; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
You love all words that destroy, O lying tongue.
Thou has loved all words of destruction, and a deceitful tongue.
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
Thou lovest all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!
(51-6) Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue.
You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue,
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
You love all words that devour, You deceitful tongue.
You love words that bite and tongues that lie.
You love to hurt people with your words, you liar!
You love any words that destroy, you treacherous tongue!
Thou louedist alle wordis of casting doun; with a gileful tunge.
Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
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
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.
