Their only plan is to bring down a person of prominence. They take pleasure in falsehood; they bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah
Psalm 52:3 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking the truth. Selah Higit pang mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou lovest evil more than good; And lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You love evil more than good, and lying rather than to speak righteousness, justice, and right. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! American Standard Version (1901) Thou lovest evil more than good, And lying rather than to speak righteousness. [Selah Common English Bible You love evil more than good; you love lying more than speaking what is right. Selah Catholic Public Domain Version God gazed down from heaven on the sons of men, to see if there were any who were considering or seeking God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version God looked down from heaven on the children of men: to see if there were any that did understand, or did seek God. |
Their only plan is to bring down a person of prominence. They take pleasure in falsehood; they bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah
The souls of the wicked desire evil; their neighbors find no mercy in their eyes.
“For my people are foolish, they do not know me; they are stupid children, they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but do not know how to do good.”
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit through the mouth. They all speak friendly words to their neighbors, but inwardly are planning to lay an ambush.
you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin off my people, and the flesh off their bones;
You are from your father the devil, and you choose to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.