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Psalm 52:2-4
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2     you are plotting destruction.
Your tongue is like a sharp razor,
    you worker of treachery.(A)
3 You love evil more than good
    and lying more than speaking the truth. Selah(B)
4 You love all words that devour,
    O deceitful tongue.(C)

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Psalm 52:2-4
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2 You who practice deceit,(A)
    your tongue plots destruction;(B)
    it is like a sharpened razor.(C)
3 You love evil(D) rather than good,
    falsehood(E) rather than speaking the truth.[a]
4 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.
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