Psalm 52:2 {51:4}
Good News Translation
You make plans to ruin others; your tongue is like a sharp razor. You are always inventing lies.

New Revised Standard Version
you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.

Contemporary English Version
You plan brutal crimes, and your lying words cut like a sharp razor.

New American Bible
All day long you are thinking up intrigues; your tongue is like a sharpened razor, you worker of deceit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.

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Psalm 50:19 Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.

Psalm 64:2-6 Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity. . . .

Psalm 140:2,3 Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long they designed battles. . . .

Proverbs 6:16-19 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, . . .

Proverbs 30:14 A generation that for teeth hath swords, and grindeth with their jaw teeth, to devour the needy from off the earth, and the poor from among men.

Jeremiah 9:3,4 And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord. . . .

Jeremiah 18:18 And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremiah: for the law shall not perish 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 give no heed to all his words.

Matthew 26:59 And the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death.

Acts 6:11-13 Then they suborned men to say they had heard him speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God. . . .

Acts 24:1,5 And after five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with some ancients and one Tertullus, an orator, who went to the governor against Paul. . . .

Revelation 12:10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying: Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ: because the accuser of our brethren is cast forth, who accused them before our God day and night.

like

Psalm 57:4 And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 59:7 Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: for who, say they, hath heard us?

Proverbs 12:18 There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: they that love it, shall eat the fruits thereof.

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Psalm 109:2 O God, be not thou silent in my praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.

Psalm 120:2 O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue.

2 Corinthians 4:2 But we renounce the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness nor adulterating the word of God: but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 11:13 For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

Context
Why Do You Boast of Evil?
1Unto the end, understanding for David, [2] When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul: David went to the house of Achimelech. [3] Why dost thou glory in malice, thou that art mighty in iniquity? 2All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.3Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.…
Cross References
Nehemiah 6:8
And I sent to them, saying: There is no such thing done as thou sayest: but thou feignest these things out of thy own heart.

Psalm 5:9
For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.

Psalm 50:19
Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.

Psalm 57:4
And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 59:7
Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: for who, say they, hath heard us?

Psalm 101:7
He that worketh pride shall not dwell in the midst of my house: he that speaketh unjust things did not prosper before my eyes.

Psalm 140:2
Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long they designed battles.

Jeremiah 18:18
And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremiah: for the law shall not perish 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 give no heed to all his words.

Jeremiah 37:14
Wherefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him, and cast him into the prison that was in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for he was chief over the prison.

Ezekiel 11:2
And he said to me: Son of man, these are the men that study iniquity, and frame a wicked counsel in this city,

Psalm 52:1
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