Psalm 52:3 {51:5}
Good News Translation
You love evil more than good and falsehood more than truth.

New Revised Standard Version
You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking the truth. Selah

Contemporary English Version
You would rather do evil than good, and tell lies than speak the truth.

New American Bible
You love evil more than good, lying rather than saying what is right. Selah

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.

lovest

Jeremiah 4:22 For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Micah 3:2 And I said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye chiefs of the house of Israel: Is it not your part to know judgment,

Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

2 Timothy 3:4 Traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and lovers of pleasure more than of God:

lying

Psalm 62:4 But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart.

Jeremiah 9:3-5,8 And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord. . . .

John 8:44 You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

Revelation 22:15 Without are dogs and sorcerers and unchaste and murderers and servers of idols and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

Context
Why Do You Boast of Evil?
2All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit. 3Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.4Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue.…
Cross References
Psalm 5:9
For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.

Psalm 36:4
He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath set himself on every way that is not good: but evil he hath not hated.

Psalm 58:3
The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.

Proverbs 21:10
The soul of the wicked desireth evil, he will not have pity on his neighbour.

Jeremiah 9:5
And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies: they have laboured to commit iniquity.

Psalm 52:2
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