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Psalm 52:4

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4 You love every harmful word, you deceitful tongue!

Psalm 52:3 Psalm 52 Psalm 52:5

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Read Psalm 52:4 Using Other Translations

KJV

Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

ESV

You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.

NLT

You love to destroy others with your words, you liar!

What does Psalm 52:4 mean?

John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Psalms 52:4

Thou lovest all devouring words
Or "words of swallowing up" ^F25; such as lies, calumnies, and detractions are, which devour the characters and reputations of men, and are the cause sometimes of their utter ruin and destruction; of the devouring and blasphemous words of antichrist see ( Revelation 13:5 Revelation 13:6 ) ;

O [thou] deceitful tongue; (See Gill on Psalms 52:2).

FOOTNOTES:

F25 (elb yrbd) "verba absorptionis", Vatablus, Gejerus, Schmidt.

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