Psalms 52:3
Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
In Context
2Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
4Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
Cross References
Psalms 62:4Only — from his excellency They have consulted to drive away, They enjoy a lie, with their mouth they bless, And with their heart revile. Selah.
Jeremiah 4:22For my people [are] foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons [are] they, yea, they [are] not intelligent, Wise [are] they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.
Jeremiah 9:8A slaughtering arrow [is] their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour it speaketh, And in its heart it layeth its ambush,
John 8:44'Ye are of a father — the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar — also his father.
2 Timothy 3:4traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,
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 →