Psalms 52:4
You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
In Context
3You love evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Cross References
1 Samuel 22:18And the king said to Doeg, Turn you, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
Psalms 120:3What shall be given unto you? or what shall be done unto you, you false tongue?
James 3:6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 52:2-6
The Wickedness of Doeg. 1 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually. 2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. 4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue. 5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. The title is… Read the whole commentary →