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You are nothing but a hired killer,[a]
    making plans to hurt people and making up lies!
You love evil more than goodness.
    You love lies more than truth. Selah

You and your lying tongue love to hurt people.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 52:2 hired killer Literally, “sharpened razor.”

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