Psalms 52:2

The wicked man's tongue is a weapon, sharp and deceitful, plotting ruin. It warns how destructive deceptive speech can be.

Cross-references · 20

• Prov 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
• Prov 6:16–19There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
• Ps 57:4My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
• Prov 12:18There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
• Ps 59:7Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”
• Jer 9:3–4“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood; and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.
• Acts 24:1After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.
• Ps 50:19“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
• Jer 18:18Then they said, “Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”
• Ps 64:2–6Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
• Matt 26:59Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
• Ps 120:2Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
• 2 Cor 4:2But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
• Ps 140:2–3those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.
• Ps 109:2for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
• 2 Cor 11:13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
• Acts 24:5For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
• Acts 6:11–13Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
• Prov 30:14There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
• Rev 12:10I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

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