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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 givest thy mouth 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 the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
 3Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
 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 commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
 6They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep. (Psa. 64:2‑6)
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Psa. 140:2‑3• 2Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
 3They have sharpened 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 the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
 17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
 18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
 19A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. (Prov. 6:16‑19)
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Prov. 30:14• 14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor 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 tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord.
 4Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders. (Jer. 9:3‑4)
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Jer. 18:18• 18Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the 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• 59Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; (Matt. 26:59)
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Acts 6:11‑13• 11Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
 12And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,
 13And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: (Acts 6:11‑13)
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Acts 24:1,5• 1And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.
 5For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes: (Acts 24:1,5)
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Rev. 12:10• 10And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. (Rev. 12:10)
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Psa. 57:4• 4My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even 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 speaketh 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 and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. (Psa. 109:2)
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Psa. 120:2• 2Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. (Psa. 120:2)
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2 Cor. 4:2• 2But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. (2 Cor. 4:2)
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2 Cor. 11:13• 13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the 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."