New English Translation
Psalms 52:3
3You love evil more than good, lies more than speaking the truth. (Selah)
Psalms 52:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
- New International Version (NIV)You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking the truth.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah
- New King James Version (NKJV)You love evil more than good, Lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah
Context of Psalms 52:3
1Why do you boast about your evil plans, O powerful man? God’s loyal love protects me all day long! 2Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver. You love evil more than good, lies more than speaking the truth. (Selah) 4You love to use all the words that destroy, and the tongue that deceives. 5Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)
Read all of Psalms 52Psalms 52:3 word by word
אָהַ֣בְתָּ רָּ֣ע מִטּ֑וֹב שֶׁ֓קֶר׀ מִדַּבֵּ֖ר צֶ֣דֶק סֶֽלָה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 52:3
- Jeremiah 4:22The Lord answered, “This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”
- Micah 3:2yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people’s skin and rip the flesh from their bones.
- Romans 1:25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
- 2 Timothy 3:4treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God.
- Psalms 62:4They spend all their time planning how to bring him down. They love to use deceit; they pronounce blessings with their mouths, but inwardly they utter curses. (Selah)
- Jeremiah 9:3The Lord says, “These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows. Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. They have become powerful in the land, but they have not done so by honest means. Indeed, they do one evil thing after another and do not pay attention to me.
- John 8:44You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
- Revelation 22:15Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!
Commentaries on Psalms 52:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Thou lovest evil - This was a finished character. Let us note the particulars: He boasted in the power to do evil. His tongue devised, studied, planned, and spoke mischiefs. He was a deceitful worker. He loved evil and not good. He loved lying; his delight was in falsity. Every word that tended to the destruction of others he loved. 7. His tongue was deceitful; he pretended friendship while his heart was full of enmity, Psalm 52:1-4. Now behold the…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Thou lovest evil more than good - Thou dost prefer to do injury to others, rather than to do them good. In the case referred to, instead of aiding the innocent, the persecuted, and the wronged, he had attempted to reveal the place where he might be found, and where an enraged enemy might have an opportunity of wreaking his vengeance upon him. And lying rather than to speak righteousness - He preferred a lie to the truth; and, when he supposed that his own…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3Dishonest speech can change a person's character.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-91. mighty man--literally, "hero." Doeg may be thus addressed, ironically, in respect of his might in slander.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 52
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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