Psalms 52:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.

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  • Ps 120:3 : 3 What shall be given to you? Or what shall be done to you, you false tongue?
  • Jas 3:6-9 : 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is among our members, that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast, and of bird, and of serpent, and of things in the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But no man can tame the tongue; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless God, even the Father; and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God.
  • 1 Sam 22:18-19 : 18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn you, and attack the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and killed on that day eighty-five persons that wore a linen ephod. 19 And Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing infants, and oxen, and donkeys, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

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  • Ps 52:1-3
    3 verses
    88%

    1Why do you boast in mischief, O mighty man? The goodness of God endures continually.

    2Your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

    3You love evil more than good; and lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah.

  • Ps 52:5
    81%

    5God shall likewise destroy you forever, He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

  • Ps 50:19-20
    2 verses
    80%

    19You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

    20You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

  • Ps 120:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue.

    3What shall be given to you? Or what shall be done to you, you false tongue?

  • Ps 5:4-6
    3 verses
    76%

    4For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness; nor shall evil dwell with you.

    5The foolish shall not stand in your sight; you hate all workers of iniquity.

    6You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; the LORD will abhor the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

  • Job 15:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5For your mouth declares your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

    6Your own mouth condemns you, not I; yes, your own lips testify against you.

  • Prov 26:28
    74%

    28A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

  • Prov 23:8
    74%

    8The morsel which you have eaten, you shall vomit up, and lose your sweet words.

  • Ps 10:7
    74%

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

  • Ps 5:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

    10Destroy them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

  • Ps 12:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2They speak vanity everyone with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

    3The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things:

  • Ps 34:13
    73%

    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

  • Ps 59:12
    72%

    12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and for the cursing and lying which they speak.

  • Prov 17:4
    72%

    4A wicked doer listens to false lips, and a liar gives ear to a deceitful tongue.

  • Ps 36:3
    72%

    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.

  • Ps 50:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16But to the wicked God says, What right do you have to declare My statutes, or to take My covenant in your mouth?

    17Seeing you hate instruction, and cast My words behind you.

  • Ps 62:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3How long will you imagine mischief against a man? You shall all be slain; as a leaning wall shall you be, and as a tottering fence.

    4They only plan to cast him down from his high position; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

  • Isa 57:4
    72%

    4Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

  • Ps 109:2
    71%

    2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

  • Prov 26:24
    71%

    24He who hates others disguises it with his lips, and stores up deceit within him;

  • Ps 140:3
    71%

    3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

  • Job 20:12
    71%

    12Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,

  • Ps 139:20
    71%

    20For they speak against You wickedly; Your enemies take Your name in vain.

  • Job 36:17
    71%

    17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

  • Jer 9:5
    70%

    5And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

  • Prov 12:22
    70%

    22Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who deal truthfully are His delight.

  • Prov 15:4
    70%

    4A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it is a break in the spirit.

  • Rom 3:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13'Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of vipers is under their lips.'

    14'Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.'

  • Job 13:7
    70%

    7Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

  • Prov 4:24
    70%

    24Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.

  • Jer 9:8
    70%

    8Their tongue is like an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait.

  • Prov 17:20
    69%

    20He who has a perverse heart finds no good, and he who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

  • Ps 31:18
    69%

    18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

  • Prov 12:19
    69%

    19The lip of truth will be established forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

  • Ps 78:36
    69%

    36Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

  • Ps 119:118
    69%

    118You reject all those who stray from Your statutes, for their deceit is falsehood.

  • Ps 144:8
    69%

    8Whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • Job 15:13
    69%

    13That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?