Psalms 51:4
All day long your tongue thinks up injustice. Like a sharp razor, you have wrought deceit.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In Context
3Why do you glory in malice, you who are powerful in iniquity?
5You have loved malice above goodness, and iniquity more than speaking righteousness.
Cross References
Genesis 9:6Whoever will shed human blood, his blood will be poured out. For man was indeed made to the image of God.
Genesis 38:7And it also happened that Er, the first born of Judah, was wicked in the sight of the Lord and was killed by him.
Leviticus 5:19because by mistake he transgressed against the Lord.
2 Samuel 12:9Therefore, why have you despised the word of the Lord, so that you did evil in my sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword. And you have taken his wife as a wife for yourself. And you have put him to death with the sword of the sons of Ammon.
2 Kings 17:17And they consecrated their sons and their daughters through fire. And they devoted themselves to divinations and soothsaying. And they delivered themselves into the doing of evil before the Lord, so that they provoked him.
Psalms 50:4Wash me once again from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 51:2-7
Penitential Petitions. 1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. 5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my… Read the whole commentary →