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Psalm 52

Psa. 52:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thy tongue
lashown (Hebrew #3956)
also (in plural) feminine lshonah {lesh-o-naw'}; from 3960; the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)
KJV usage: + babbler,bay, + evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.
Pronounce: law-shone'
Origin: or lashon {law-shone'}
deviseth
chashab (Hebrew #2803)
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Pronounce: khaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
mischiefs
havvah (Hebrew #1942)
desire; also ruin
KJV usage: calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.
Pronounce: hav-vaw'
Origin: from 1933 (in the sense of eagerly coveting and rushing upon; by implication, of falling)
; like a sharp
latash (Hebrew #3913)
properly, to hammer out (an edge), i.e. to sharpen
KJV usage: instructer, sharp(-en), whet.
Pronounce: law-tash'
Origin: a primitive root
razor
ta`ar (Hebrew #8593)
a knife or razor (as making bare): also a scabbard (as being bare, i.e. empty)
KJV usage: (pen-)knife, razor, scabbard, shave, sheath.
Pronounce: tah'-ar
Origin: from 6168
, working
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
deceitfully
rmiyah (Hebrew #7423)
remissness, treachery
KJV usage: deceit(- ful, -fully), false, guile, idle, slack, slothful.
Pronounce: rem-ee-yaw'
Origin: from 7411
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Ministry on This Verse

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Thy.
Psa. 50:19• 19Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit; (Psa. 50:19)
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Psa. 64:2‑6• 2Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, from the tumultuous crowd of the workers of iniquity,
 3Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;
 4That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
 5They encourage themselves in an evil matter, they concert to hide snares; they say, Who will see them?
 6They devise iniquities: We have it ready, the plan is diligently sought out. And each one's inward thought and heart is deep. (Psa. 64:2‑6)
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Psa. 140:2‑3• 2Who devise mischiefs in their heart; every day are they banded together for war.
 3They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah. (Psa. 140:2‑3)
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Prov. 6:16‑19• 16These six things doth Jehovah hate, yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
 17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;
 18a heart that deviseth wicked imaginations; feet that are swift in running to mischief;
 19a false witness that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discords among brethren. (Prov. 6:16‑19)
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Prov. 30:14• 14--a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted from off the earth, and the needy from among men. (Prov. 30:14)
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Jer. 9:3‑4• 3And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood, and not for fidelity are they valiant in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.
 4Take ye heed every one of his friend, and confide not in any brother; for every brother only supplanteth, and every friend goeth about with slander. (Jer. 9:3‑4)
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Jer. 18:18• 18And they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor word from the prophet. Come and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. (Jer. 18:18)
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Matt. 26:59• 59And the chief priests and the elders and the whole sanhedrim sought false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death. (Matt. 26:59)
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Acts 6:11‑13• 11Then they suborned men, saying, We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God.
 12And they roused the people, and the elders, and the scribes. And coming upon him they seized him and brought him to the council.
 13And they set false witnesses, saying, This man does not cease speaking words against the holy place and the law; (Acts 6:11‑13)
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Acts 24:1,5• 1And after five days came down the high priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator called Tertullus, and laid their informations against Paul before the governor.
 5For finding this man a pest, and moving sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a leader of the sect of the Nazaraeans; (Acts 24:1,5)
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Rev. 12:10• 10And I heard a great voice in the heaven saying, Now is come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brethren has been cast out, who accused them before our God day and night: (Rev. 12:10)
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Psa. 57:4• 4My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down among them that breathe out flames, the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. (Psa. 57:4)
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Psa. 59:7• 7Behold, they belch out with their mouth; swords are in their lips: for who say they doth hear? (Psa. 59:7)
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Prov. 12:18• 18There is that babbleth like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health. (Prov. 12:18)
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Prov. 18:21• 21Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. (Prov. 18:21)
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Psa. 109:2• 2For the mouth of the wicked man and the mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue, (Psa. 109:2)
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Psa. 120:2• 2Jehovah, deliver my soul from the lying lip, from the deceitful tongue. (Psa. 120:2)
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2 Cor. 4:2• 2But we have rejected the hidden things of shame, not walking in deceit, nor falsifying the word of God, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God. (2 Cor. 4:2)
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2 Cor. 11:13• 13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. (2 Cor. 11:13)
• His words may, to the unwary, appear fair; but they are devised to work mischief, like a sharp razor that cuts before one is aware. Thus he will be marked by “practicing deceit” (JND). (“Psalms 52” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practisingg deceit.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "thou practiser of."