for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
Psalm 52:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, *For,* they say, *who hears us?*
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Yirmeyahu; for the law shall not perish from the Kohen, 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.
Now the chief Kohanim, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Yeshua, that they might put him to death;
After five days, the Kohen Gadol, Chananyah, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Sha'ul.
For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Natzerim.
For such men are false emissaries, deceitful workers, masquerading as Messiah's emissaries.
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, *Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
Then answered Do'eg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Sha'ul, and said, I saw the son of Yishai coming to Nov, to Achimelekh the son of Achituv.