Psalm 52:2
Modern Translations
New International Version
You who practice deceit, your tongue plots destruction; it is like a sharpened razor.

New Living Translation
All day long you plot destruction. Your tongue cuts like a sharp razor; you’re an expert at telling lies.

English Standard Version
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.

Berean Study Bible
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

New American Standard Bible
Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.

NASB 1995
Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.

NASB 1977
Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.

Amplified Bible
Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Christian Standard Bible
Like a sharpened razor, your tongue devises destruction, working treachery.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Like a sharpened razor, your tongue devises destruction, working treachery.

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

Good News Translation
You make plans to ruin others; your tongue is like a sharp razor. You are always inventing lies.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Your tongue makes up threats. It's like a sharp razor, you master of deceit.

International Standard Version
Your tongue, like a sharp razor, devises wicked things and crafts treachery.

NET Bible
Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.

New King James Version
Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

King James 2000 Bible
Your tongue devises evil; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

New Heart English Bible
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

World English Bible
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

American King James Version
The tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

American Standard Version
Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

A Faithful Version
Your tongue devises destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Darby Bible Translation
Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.

English Revised Version
Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Thy tongue imagineth wickednes: and deceaueth like a sharpe raser.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Thy tonge ymagineth wickednesse, and with lyes it cutteth like a sharpe rasoure.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Your tongue devises mischiefs, "" Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

Young's Literal Translation
Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

Smith's Literal Translation
The original Julia E. Smith Bible records the following as a verse reference for Ps 52:4Thy tongue will purpose mischief as a razor being sharpened, working deceit.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
All day long your tongue thinks up injustice. Like a sharp razor, you have wrought deceit.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Your tongue conceives evil and, like a sharpened razor, you have worked deceit.

Lamsa Bible
It is like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Thy tongue deviseth destruction; Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
thy tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor thou hast wrought deceit.
















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