Psalm 52:2

Modern English Version

Your tongue devises destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.

Cross References

Proverbs 18:21

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

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions; I lie among the sons of men who are set on fire, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Proverbs 12:18

The words of the rash are like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they bellow with their mouth; swords are in their lips; for they say, “Who hears us?”

2 Corinthians 11:13

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

2 Corinthians 4:2

But we have renounced the secret things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by expressing the truth and commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Acts 24:5

“We have found this man a troublemaker, instigating riots among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Acts 24:1

After five days Ananias the high priest arrived with some of the elders and a lawyer named Tertullus. They brought before the governor their charges against Paul.

Matthew 26:59

The chief priests and the elders and the entire Sanhedrin searched for false witness against Jesus to put Him to death,

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. For the law will not be lost from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, whose fangs are like knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among mortals.

Psalm 120:2

Deliver my soul, O  Lord, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

Psalm 109:2

For the mouth of the wicked and the deceitful have they opened against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Psalm 50:19

You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

Revelation 12:10

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying: “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.

1 Samuel 22:9

Then Doeg the Edomite, who was chief over the servants of Saul, answered, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.