For the mouth of the wrong And the mouth of the deceiver Have opened against me; They have spoken against me with a false tongue.
Psalm 52:2 - The Scriptures 1998 Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceit. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your tongue devises wickedness; it is like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. American Standard Version (1901) Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Common English Bible Your tongue devises destruction: it’s like a sharpened razor, causing deception. Catholic Public Domain Version They were corrupted, and they became abominable with iniquities. There is no one who does good. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They are corrupted, and become abominable in iniquities: there is none that doth good. |
For the mouth of the wrong And the mouth of the deceiver Have opened against me; They have spoken against me with a false tongue.
My being is in the midst of lions; I lie among those who breathe fire, Whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue is a sharp sword.
See, they belch out with their mouth, Swords are in their lips, For who is listening?
Rash speaking is like piercings of a sword, But the tongue of the wise is healing.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.
There is a generation whose teeth are swords, And whose jaw-teeth are knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, And the needy from among men.
Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Yirmeyahu, for the Torah 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 listen to any of his words.”
And the chief priests, and the elders, and all the council were seeking false witness against יהושע to put Him to death,
“For having found this man a plague, who stirs up dissension among all the Yehuḏ
For such are false emissaries, deceptive workers, masquerading as emissaries of Messiah.
but have renounced the secret ways of shame, not walking in craftiness nor falsifying the Word of Elohim, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every human conscience, in the sight of Elohim.
And I heard a loud voice saying in the heaven, “Now have come the deliverance and the power and the reign of our Elohim, and the authority of His Messiah, for the accuser of our brothers, who accused them before our Elohim day and night, has been thrown down.