Psalms 52:2

Read in context

Psalms 52:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.

2 Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

3 You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah

4 You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.

Hebrew words

Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Study Psalms 52:2

Read the commentary on Psalms 52

Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 50:19

You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.

Psalms 64:2

Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,

Psalms 64:3

who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,

Psalms 64:4

ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.

Psalms 64:5

They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.

Psalms 64:6

They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.

Psalms 140:2

who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.

Psalms 140:3

They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah

Proverbs 6:16

There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:

Proverbs 6:17

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 6:18

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,

Proverbs 6:19

a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.

Proverbs 30:14

there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.

Jeremiah 9:3

“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:4

“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”

Matthew 26:59

Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.

Acts 6:11

Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”

Acts 6:12

So they stirred up the people, elders, and scribes and confronted Stephen. They seized him and brought him before the Sanhedrin,

Acts 6:13

where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.

Acts 24:1

Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the governor their case against Paul.

Acts 24:5

We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,

Revelation 12:10

And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down— he who accuses them day and night before our God.

Psalms 57:4

My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

Psalms 59:7

See what they spew from their mouths— sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”

Proverbs 12:18

Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Proverbs 18:21

Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Psalms 109:2

For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

Psalms 120:2

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.

2 Corinthians 4:2

Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 11:13

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.