Psalm 52:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Your tongue devises wickedness; it is like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Common English Bible

² Your tongue devises destruction: it’s like a sharpened razor, causing deception.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² They were corrupted, and they became abominable with iniquities. There is no one who does good.

Psalm 52:2 Cross References

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Psalm 57:4

I lie down among lions that greedily devour human prey; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.

Proverbs 12:18

Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Psalm 59:7

There they are, bellowing with their mouths, with sharp words on their lips, for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”

2 Corinthians 11:13

For such boasters are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:2

We have renounced the shameful, underhanded ways; we refuse to practice cunning or to falsify God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we commend ourselves to the conscience of everyone in the sight of God.

Acts 24:5

We have, in fact, found this man a pestilent fellow, an agitator among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Acts 24:1

Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and an attorney, a certain Tertullus, and they reported their case against Paul to the governor.

Matthew 26:59

Now the chief priests and the whole council were looking for false testimony against Jesus so that they might put him to death,

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us bring charges against him, and let us not heed any of his words.”

Proverbs 30:14

there are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mortals.

Psalm 120:2

“Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.”

Psalm 109:2

For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.

Psalm 50:19

“You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

Revelation 12:10

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven proclaiming, “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Messiah, for the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.

1 Samuel 22:9

Doeg the Edomite, who was in charge of Saul’s servants, answered, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech son of Ahitub;