Psalms 52 · Verse 4

Psalms 52:4

Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
Psalms 52:4, King James Version

Psalms 52:4 in other translations

BSBYou love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
WEBYou love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
ASVThou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
YLTThou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
DARBYThou hast loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!
BBEDestruction is in all your words, O false tongue.
WebsterThou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

What does Psalms 52:4 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
4. all-devouring--literally, "swallowing," which utterly destroy (compare Psa 21:9; 35:25).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 52:1-5

Those that glory in sin, glory in their shame. The patience and forbearance of God are abused by sinners, to the hardening of their hearts in their wicked ways. But the enemies in vain boast in their mischief, while we have God's mercy to trust in. It will not save us from the guilt of lying, to be able to say, there was some truth in what we said, if we make it appear otherwise than it was. The more there is of…

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Psalms 52:4 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אָהַ֥בְתָּ'a.Hav.tayou loveH157
כָֽל\־khol-allH3605
דִּבְרֵי\־div.rei-words ofH1697
בָ֗לַעVa.la'swallowingH1105
לְשׁ֣וֹןle.Shona tongue ofH3956
מִרְמָֽה\׃mir.MahdeceitH4820

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 52:4

  • Psalms 120:3

    What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?

  • James 3:6-9

    And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

  • 1 Samuel 22:18-19

    And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, 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. And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
devouring.
1Sa 22:18,19; Jas 3:6-9
O thou. or, and the.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 52:3

    Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

  • Psalms 52:4

    Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

  • Psalms 52:5

    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.

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Psalms 52:4 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Has amado toda suerte de palabras perniciosas, engañosa lengua.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Ta langue trame des malheurs, pratiquant la fausseté, comme un rasoir affilé.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Du hast alle Vertilgungsworte geliebt, du Zunge des Trugs!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Omnes declinaverunt; simul inutiles facti sunt: non est qui faciat bonum, non est usque ad unum.