For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.
Psalm 52:2 - Revised Standard Version you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery. 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 wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.
“You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
I lie in the midst of lions that greedily devour the sons of men; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.
There they are, bellowing with their mouths, and snarling with their lips— for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”
There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
There are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among men.
Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not heed any of his words.”
Now the chief priests and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death,
And after five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a spokesman, one Tertullus. They laid before the governor their case against Paul;
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, an agitator among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
We have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways; we refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
And 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 brethren has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub,