Psalm 52:2 You who practice deceit, your tongue plots destruction; it is like a sharpened razor.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
You who practice deceit, your tongue plots destruction; it is like a sharpened razor.

English Standard Version
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.

New American Standard Bible
Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.

King James Bible
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Like a sharpened razor, your tongue devises destruction, working treachery.

International Standard Version
Your tongue, like a sharp razor, devises wicked things and crafts treachery.

American Standard Version
Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.

Darby Bible Translation
Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.

Young's Literal Translation
Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

Cross References

Nehemiah 6:8
Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as you say, but you feign them out of your own heart.

Psalm 5:9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.

Psalm 50:19
You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

Psalm 57:4
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 59:7
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, does hear?

Psalm 101:7
He that works deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that tells lies shall not tarry in my sight.

Psalm 140:2
Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.

Jeremiah 18:18
Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Jeremiah 37:14
Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he listened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

Ezekiel 11:2
Then said he to me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

2. tongue—for self.

mischiefs—evil to others (Ps 5:9; 38:12).

working deceitfully—(Ps 10:7), as a keen, smoothly moving razor, cutting quietly, but deeply.