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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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Psa. 50:19• 19Thy mouth thou hast sent out (let loose) to evil,{HR}And thy tongue frameth deceit. (Psa. 50:19)
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Psa. 64:2‑6• 2Thou wilt hide me from the secret of evil-doers,{HR}From the tumult of workers of iniquity,
 3Who have sharpened like the sword their tongue,{HR}Have bent their arrow, a bitter word,
 4To shoot in the secret places at the perfect;{HR}Suddenly they shoot [at him] and fear not.
 5They strengthen to themselves an evil matter;{HR}They concert to hide snares;{HR}They have said, Who will see them?
 6They devise iniquities:{HR}We are ready (finished)! a well-devised device!{HR}And each one's inward [thought] and heart [is] deep. (Psa. 64:2‑6)
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Psa. 140:2‑3• 2Who devise evils in heart;{HR}All day they gather [for] wars.
 3They whet their tongue like a serpent:{HR}Adder's poison [is] under their lips, Selah. (Psa. 140:2‑3)
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Prov. 6:16‑19• 16Six [things] Jehovah hateth,{HR}Yea, seven [are] an abomination of his soul:
 17Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,{HR}And hands that shed innocent blood,
 18A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,{HR}Feet that are swift in running to mischief,
 19A false witness breathing out lies,{HR}And he that sendeth out discords among brethren. (Prov. 6:16‑19)
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Prov. 30:14• 14—A generation whose teeth are swords,{HR}And their jaw-teeth knives,{HR}To devour the afflicted from off the earth,{HR}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• 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• 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 speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.
 12And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes; and coming upon [him] they seized and brought him into the council,
 13and set false witnesses, saying, This man ceaseth not 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 certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus; and they laid an information before the governor against Paul.
 5For we found this man a pest, and moving insurrections 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 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 is cast out that 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;{HR}I will lie down with those on fire, the sons of men,{HR}Their teeth 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:{HR}Swords [are] in their lips; for who heareth? (Psa. 59:7)
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Prov. 12:18• 18There is that babbleth like the piercings of a sword;{HR}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;{HR}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 one{HR}And [the] mouth of deceit are opened against me:{HR}They have spoken against me with a lying tongue. (Psa. 109:2)
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Psa. 120:2• 2Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lip of lying,{HR}From a tongue of deceit. (Psa. 120:2)
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2 Cor. 4:2• 2but refused the hidden things of shame, not walking in deceit, nor guilefully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men 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 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). (“Psalm 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."

W. Kelly Translation

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Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs,{HR}As a sharp razor, working deceit.