Psalm 52:4 {51:6}
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Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue.

devouring

1 Samuel 22:18,19 And the king said to Doeg: Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg, the Edomite, turned, and fell upon the priests, and slew in that day eighty-five men that wore the linen ephod. . . .

James 3:6-9 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell. . . .

O thou.

Context
Why Do You Boast of Evil?
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.5Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of the living.…
Cross References
Psalm 5:6
Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: thou wilt destroy all that speak a lie. The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor.

Psalm 101:7
He that worketh pride shall not dwell in the midst of my house: he that speaketh unjust things did not prosper before my eyes.

Psalm 109:2
O God, be not thou silent in my praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.

Psalm 120:2
O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue.

Psalm 120:3
What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, to a deceitful tongue?

Proverbs 12:19
The lip of truth shall be steadfast for ever: but he that is a hasty witness, frameth a lying tongue.

Lexicon
You love
אָהַ֥בְתָּ (’ā·haḇ·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 157: To have affection f

every
כָֽל־ (ḵāl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

word
דִּבְרֵי־ (diḇ·rê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

that devours,
בָ֗לַע (ḇā·la‘)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1105: A swallowing, devouring, a thing swallowed

O deceitful
מִרְמָֽה׃ (mir·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4820: Deceit, treachery

tongue.
לְשׁ֣וֹן (lə·šō·wn)
Noun - common singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3956: The tongue


Additional Translations
You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.

Thou lovest all devouring words, thou deceitful tongue.

Thou has loved all words of destruction, and a deceitful tongue.

Thou hast loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!

Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

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