Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
You love all words that destroy, you deceitful tongue!
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
Holman Bible
you treacherous tongue!
A Conservative Version
Thou love all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
American Standard Version
Thou lovest all devouring words, thou deceitful tongue.
Amplified
You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.
Bible in Basic English
Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.
Darby Translation
Thou hast loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!
Julia Smith Translation
Thou lovedst all words of destruction, a tongue of deceit
King James 2000
You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue,
Modern King James verseion
You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou lovest to speak all words that may do hurt, O thou false tongue.
NET Bible
You love to use all the words that destroy, and the tongue that deceives.
New Heart English Bible
You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
The Emphasized Bible
Thou lovest all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!
Webster
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
World English Bible
You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
Themes
Evil » Who loves evil more than good
Mischief » Who speaks of mischief
Speech/communication » Those that speak deceitfully
Strength » Those that do not make God their strength
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 52:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Judges The Proud
3 You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking uprightly. Interlude 4 You love all words that destroy, you deceitful tongue! 5 But God will tear you down forever; he will take you away, even snatching you out of your tent! He will uproot you from the land of the living. Interlude
Phrases
Cross References
1 Samuel 22:18-19
Then the king told Doeg, "You turn and attack the priests." Doeg the Edomite turned and attacked the priests. That day he killed eighty-five men who carry the linen ephod.
Psalm 120:3
What will be given to you, and what will be done to you, you treacherous tongue?
James 3:6-9
The tongue is a fire, a world of evil. Placed among the parts of our bodies, the tongue contaminates the whole body and sets on fire the course of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.