Psalms 52:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

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  • Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life `are' in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul `is' in the midst of lions, I lie down `among' flames -- sons of men, Their teeth `are' a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords `are' in their lips, for `Who heareth?'
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.
  • Ps 50:19 : 19 Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,
  • Ps 64:2-6 : 2 Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity. 3 Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word. 4 To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not. 5 They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?' 6 They search out perverse things, `We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart `are' deep.
  • Ps 109:2 : 2 For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me -- A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!
  • Ps 120:2 : 2 O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!
  • Ps 140:2-3 : 2 Who have devised evils in the heart, All the day they assemble `for' wars. 3 They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder `is' under their lips. Selah.
  • Prov 6:16-19 : 16 These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven `are' abominations to His soul. 17 Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood -- 18 A heart devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil -- 19 A false witness `who' doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 A generation -- swords `are' their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from `among' men.
  • Jer 9:3-4 : 3 And they bend their tongue, their bow `is' a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah! 4 Each of his friend -- beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk,
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.
  • Matt 26:59 : 59 And the chief priests, and the elders, and all the council, were seeking false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death,
  • Acts 6:11-13 : 11 then they suborned men, saying -- `We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.' 12 They did stir up also the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come upon `him', they caught him, and brought `him' to the sanhedrim; 13 they set up also false witnesses, saying, `This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law,
  • Acts 24:1 : 1 And after five days came down the chief priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator -- Tertullus, and they made manifest to the governor `the things' against Paul;
  • Acts 24:5 : 5 for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world -- a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes --
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;
  • 2 Cor 11:13 : 13 for those such `are' false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,
  • Rev 12:10 : 10 And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven, `Now did come the salvation, and the power, and the reign, of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because cast down was the accuser of our brethren, who is accusing them before our God day and night;

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  • Ps 52:3-5
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    3Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah.

    4Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

    5Also -- God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.

  • Ps 50:19-20
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    82%

    19Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,

    20Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue `is' perverseness and iniquity,

  • Ps 52:1
    78%

    1To the Overseer. -- An instruction, by David, in the coming in of Doeg the Edomite, and he declareth to Saul, and saith to him, `David came in unto the house of Ahimelech.' What, boasteth thou in evil, O mighty one? The kindness of God `is' all the day.

  • Job 15:5
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    5For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.

  • Ps 120:3
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    3What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue!

  • Ps 140:2-3
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    2Who have devised evils in the heart, All the day they assemble `for' wars.

    3They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder `is' under their lips. Selah.

  • Jer 9:8
    76%

    8A slaughtering arrow `is' their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour it speaketh, And in its heart it layeth its ambush,

  • Ps 34:13
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    13Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

  • Ps 64:3
    75%

    3Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.

  • Prov 24:2
    75%

    2For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.

  • Ps 5:9
    74%

    9For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart `is' mischiefs, An open grave `is' their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.

  • Ps 36:3-4
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    74%

    3The words of his mouth `are' iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently -- to do good.

    4Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'

  • Prov 26:28
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    28A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!

  • Jer 9:5
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    5And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.

  • Ps 12:2-3
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    74%

    2Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

    3Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,

  • Ps 109:2
    74%

    2For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me -- A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!

  • Prov 6:14
    73%

    14Frowardness `is' in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

  • Prov 12:18
    73%

    18A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.

  • Isa 32:7
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    7And the miser -- his instruments `are' evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.

  • Isa 59:3
    73%

    3For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.

  • Prov 17:4
    73%

    4An evil doer is attentive to lips of vanity, Falsehood is giving ear to a mischievous tongue.

  • Prov 12:20
    72%

    20Deceit `is' in the heart of those devising evil, And to those counselling peace `is' joy.

  • Rom 3:13
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    13A sepulchre opened `is' their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps `is' under their lips.

  • Prov 17:20
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    20The perverse of heart findeth not good, And the turned in his tongue falleth into evil.

  • Ps 55:21
    72%

    21Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart `is' war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they `are' drawn `swords'.

  • Prov 16:30
    72%

    30Consulting his eyes to devise froward things, Moving his lips he hath accomplished evil.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12The sin of their mouth `is' a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.

  • Prov 24:8
    72%

    8Whoso is devising to do evil, Him they call a master of wicked thoughts.

  • Prov 10:31
    72%

    31The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And the tongue of frowardness is cut out.

  • Ps 38:12
    72%

    12And those seeking my soul lay a snare, And those seeking my evil Have spoken mischievous things, And they do deceits meditate all the day.

  • Ps 62:3-4
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    72%

    3Till when do ye devise mischief against a man? Ye are destroyed all of you, As a wall inclined, a hedge that is cast down.

    4Only -- from his excellency They have consulted to drive away, They enjoy a lie, with their mouth they bless, And with their heart revile. Selah.

  • Ps 37:12
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    12The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth.

  • Ps 5:6
    72%

    6Thou destroyest those speaking lies, A man of blood and deceit Jehovah doth abominate.

  • Job 20:12
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    12Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue,

  • Isa 57:4
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    4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom enlarge ye the mouth? Prolong ye the tongue? Are not ye children of transgression? a false seed?

  • Ps 144:8
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    8Because their mouth hath spoken vanity, And their right hand `is' a right hand of falsehood.

  • Prov 6:18
    71%

    18A heart devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil --

  • Mic 6:12
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    12Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue `is' deceitful in their mouth.

  • Ps 21:11
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    11For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,

  • Prov 25:18
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    18A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, `Is' the man testifying against his neighbour a false testimony.

  • Jer 9:3
    71%

    3And they bend their tongue, their bow `is' a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!

  • Ps 58:2
    71%

    2Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.