Psalms 52:4

World English Bible (2000)

You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

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  • Ps 120:3 : 3 What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?
  • Jas 3:6-9 : 6 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna. 7 For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.
  • 1 Sam 22:18-19 : 18 The king said to Doeg, "Turn and attack the priests!" Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod. 19 He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

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  • Ps 52:1-3
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    1Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually.

    2Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

    3You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.

  • Ps 52:5
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    5God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

  • Ps 50:19-20
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    19"You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

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

  • Ps 120:2-3
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    77%

    2Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

    3What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

  • Ps 5:4-6
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    4For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.

    5The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

    6You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

  • Job 15:5-6
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    5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

    6Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

  • Prov 26:28
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    28A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

  • Prov 23:8
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    8The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

  • Ps 5:9-10
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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

    10Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

  • Ps 12:2-3
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    2Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

    3May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

  • Ps 34:13
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    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

  • Prov 17:4
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    4An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

  • Ps 36:3
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    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

  • Ps 50:16-17
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    16But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

    17since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

  • Ps 62:3-4
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    3How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

    4They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

  • Isa 57:4
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    4Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,

  • Ps 109:2
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    2for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

  • Prov 26:24
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    24A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.

  • Ps 140:3
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    3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.

  • Job 20:12
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    12"Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

  • Ps 139:20
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    20For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.

  • Job 36:17
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    17"But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

  • Jer 9:5
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    5They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

  • Prov 12:22
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    22Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

  • Prov 15:4
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    4A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

  • Rom 3:13-14
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    13"Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used 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 unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

  • Prov 4:24
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    24Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.

  • Prov 17:20
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    20One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

  • Ps 31:18
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    18Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

  • Prov 12:19
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    19Truth's lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.

  • Ps 78:36
    69%

    36But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

  • Ps 119:118
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    118You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.

  • Ps 144:8
    69%

    8whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • Job 15:13
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    13That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?