For the wicked and the deceitful have opened their mouth against me. They spoke to me with a lying tongue,
Psalm 52:2 - Tree of Life Version when Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul telling him, “David went to Ahimelech’s house.” 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 the wicked and the deceitful have opened their mouth against me. They spoke to me with a lying tongue,
You have unleashed your mouth for evil and harnessed your tongue for deceit.
He will send from heaven and save me. He rebukes the one trampling on me. Selah God is sending His mercy and His truth.
They return at evening, snarling like a dog, prowling about the city.
Reckless speech is like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Death and life are in the control of the tongue. Those who indulge in it will eat its fruit.
There is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose molars are knives, to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among humanity.
Then they said: “Come, let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely Torah from the kohen will not be lost, nor will counsel from the wise, nor will the word from the prophet. Come, let’s strike at him with the tongue, and pay no attention to any of his words.”
Now the ruling kohanim and all the Sanhedrin kept trying to get false testimony against Yeshua so they could put Him to death.
After five days, the kohen gadol Ananias came down with some of the elders and an attorney named Tertullus. They brought formal charges against Paul before the governor.
For we have found this man to be a pest, stirring up riots among all the Jewish people throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Natzratim.
For such men are false emissaries, deceitful workers masquerading as Messiah’s emissaries.
Instead, we renounced the hidden shameful ways—not walking in deception or distorting the word of God, but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by the open proclamation of the truth.
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Anointed One, for the accuser of our brothers and sisters—the one who accuses them before our God day and night—has been thrown out.
Then Doeg the Edomite, who was standing among Saul’s courtiers, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob—to Ahimelech son of Ahitub—