Bible verse

Psalm 52:4

You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.

Psalm 52:4 · BSB

Psalm 52:4 in context

The verses around it, from Psalm 52.

1 For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.

2 Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

3 You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah

4 You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.

5 Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

6 The righteous will see and fear; they will mock the evildoer, saying,

7 “Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”

8 But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.

9 I will praise You forever, because You have done it. I will wait on Your name—for it is good—in the presence of Your saints.

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Psalm 52:4 in other translations

KJV

Thou lovest all devouring words, O [thou] deceitful tongue.

ASV

Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

ERV

Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

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