Psalm 52:2 Parallel Translations
NASB: Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: Your tongue makes up threats. It's like a sharp razor, you master of deceit.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
ASV: Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
BBE: Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.
DBY: Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.
ERV: Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
JPS: Thy tongue deviseth destruction; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
WBS: Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
WEB: Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
YLT: Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
Psalm 52:2 Cross References
XREF:Psalm 5:9 There is nothing reliable in what they say; Their inward part is destruction itself. Their throat is an open grave; They flatter with their tongue.

Psalm 57:4 My soul is among lions; I must lie among those who breathe forth fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows And their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 59:7 Behold, they belch forth with their mouth; Swords are in their lips, For, they say, "Who hears?"

Psalm 101:7 He who practices deceit shall not dwell within my house; He who speaks falsehood shall not maintain his position before me. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 52:2 Thy tongue deviseth {b} mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
(b) Your malice moves you by crafty flattery and lies to accuse and destroy the innocents.
WES: 52:2 Deviseth - Expresses what thy wicked mind had devised. Deceitfully - Doeg pretended only to vindicate himself from disloyalty, 1Sam 22:8, but he really intended to expose the priests, to the king's fury.
MHC: 52:1-5 Those that glory in sin, glory in their shame. The patience and forbearance of God are abused by sinners, to the hardening of their hearts in their wicked ways. But the enemies in vain boast in their mischief, while we have God's mercy to trust in. It will not save us from the guilt of lying, to be able to say, there was some truth in what we said, if we make it appear otherwise than it was. The more there is of craft and contrivance in any wickedness, the more there is of Satan in it. When good men die, they are transplanted from the land of the living on earth, to heaven, the garden of the Lord, where they shall take root for ever; but when wicked men die, they are rooted out, to perish for ever. The believer sees that God will destroy those who make not him their strength.
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