Psalms 52:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 62:4 : 4 Only -- from his excellency They have consulted to drive away, They enjoy a lie, with their mouth they bless, And with their heart revile. Selah.
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people `are' foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons `are' they, yea, they `are' not intelligent, Wise `are' they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.
  • Jer 9:3-5 : 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, 5 And 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.
  • Jer 9:8 : 8 A 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,
  • Mic 3:2 : 2 Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones,
  • John 8:44 : 44 `Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.
  • Rom 1:25 : 25 who did change the truth of God into a falsehood, and did honour and serve the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed to the ages. Amen.
  • 2 Tim 3:4 : 4 traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,
  • Rev 22:15 : 15 and without `are' the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.

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    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.

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    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.

    2Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

  • Ps 50:17-20
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    17Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.

    18If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers `is' thy portion.

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

  • Ps 36:3-4
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    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.'

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

  • Ps 5:4-6
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    4For not a God desiring wickedness `art' Thou, Evil inhabiteth Thee not.

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

  • Prov 13:5
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    5A false word the righteous hateth, And the wicked causeth abhorrence, and is confounded.

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

  • Prov 12:22
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    22An abomination to Jehovah `are' lying lips, And stedfast doers `are' his delight.

  • Ps 119:163
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    163Falsehood I have hated, yea I abominate `it', Thy law I have loved.

  • Prov 17:4
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    4An evil doer is attentive to lips of vanity, Falsehood is giving ear to a mischievous tongue.

  • Prov 26:24
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    24By his lips doth a hater dissemble, And in his heart he placeth deceit,

  • Job 13:7
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    7For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?

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

  • Ps 5:9
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    9For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart `is' mischiefs, An open grave `is' their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.

  • Mic 3:2
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    2Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones,

  • Jer 2:33
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    33What -- dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways.

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

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    3With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes.

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    13Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he,

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    13Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostacy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood.

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

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    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!

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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?

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    17And each the evil of his neighbour ye do not devise in your heart, And a false oath ye do not love, For all these `are' things that I have hated, An affirmation of Jehovah.'

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

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    18Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

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

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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.

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    10Ye who love Jehovah, hate evil, He is keeping the souls of His saints, From the hand of the wicked he delivereth them.

  • 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.

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    7Thou hast loved righteousness and hatest wickedness, Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee, Oil of joy above thy companions.

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

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

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    14Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,

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    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!

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    17And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,