Psalms 52:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Thou lovest all devouring words, O [thou] deceitful tongue.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 120:3 : 3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
  • Jas 3:6-9 : 6 And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. 7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
  • 1 Sam 22:18-19 : 18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. 19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

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    5God 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.

  • Ps 50:19-20
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    2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, [and] from a deceitful tongue.

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  • Ps 5:4-6
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  • Job 15:5-6
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    5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity.

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    13That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest [such] words go out of thy mouth?