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Your tongue plans destruction.
It is like a sharpened razor, you scheming liar.
You love evil rather than good. Interlude
You love lying rather than speaking what is right.
You lying tongue, you love every word that devours!

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You who practice deceit,(A)
    your tongue plots destruction;(B)
    it is like a sharpened razor.(C)
You love evil(D) rather than good,
    falsehood(E) rather than speaking the truth.[a]
You love every harmful word,
    you deceitful tongue!(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 52:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 5.