PSA 52:4 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX (PSA 51:6) Ἠγάπησας πάντα τὰ ῥήματα καταποντισμοῦ, γλῶσσαν δολίαν.
(Aʸgapaʸsas panta ta ɽaʸmata katapontismou, glōssan dolian.)

BrTr (PSA 51:6) Thou hast loved all words of destruction, and a deceitful tongue.

ULT You love all words of destruction,
⇔ tongue of betrayal!

UST You like to say anything that will cause harm to people.
⇔ What you say causes innocent people to suffer.

BSB & MSB You love every word that devours,
⇔ O deceitful tongue.

OEB But you love all words that devour,
⇔ and a tongue that is given to deceit.

WEBBE & WMBB You love all devouring words,
⇔ you deceitful tongue.

NET You love to use all the words that destroy,
⇔ and the tongue that deceives.

LSV You have loved all devouring words,
O you deceitful tongue.

FBV You love slanderous words that destroy others, you liar!

T4T You who say things [MTY] to deceive people,
⇔ you like to say ◄things that hurt people/cruel things►!

LEB • You love all devouring words,
• O deceitful tongue,

BBE Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.

Moff you revel in deadly speech,
⇔ you and your sly tongue!

JPS (PSA 52:6) (52-8) The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:

ASV Thou lovest all devouring words,
⇔ O thou deceitful tongue.

DRA (PSA 51:6) Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue.

YLT Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

Drby Thou hast loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!

RV Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
(Thou/You lovest/love all devouring words, Oh thou/you deceitful tongue.)

SLT Thou lovedst all words of destruction, a tongue of deceit.

Wbstr Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

KJB-1769 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.[fn]
(Thou/You lovest/love all devouring words, Oh thou/you deceitful tongue.)

52.4 O thou…: or, and the deceitful tongue

KJB-1611 Thou louest all deuouring words, [fn]O thou deceitfull tongue.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

52:4 Or, and the deceitfull tongue.

Bshps Thou hast loued to speake all wordes that may do hurt: O thou deceiptfull tongue.
(Thou/You hast loved to speak all words that may do hurt: Oh thou/you deceitful tongue.)

Gnva Thou louest all wordes that may destroye, O deceitfull tongue!
(Thou/You lovest/love all words that may destroy, Oh deceitful tongue!)

Cvdl Thou louest vngraciousnesse more the good, to talke of lyes more then rightuousnesse.
(Thou/You lovest/love ungraciousness more the good, to talk of lies more then righteousness.)

Wycl (PSA 51:6) Thou louedist alle wordis of casting doun; with a gileful tunge.
(Thou/You loved all words of casting down; with a guileful tongue.)

Luth (PSA 52:6) Du redest gern alles, was zu Verderben dienet, mit falscher Zunge.
(You(sg) talk/speak gladly/willingly all/everything, what/which to/for spoiling_(one) serves, with false/counterfeit tongue.)

ClVg (PSA 51:6) Dilexisti omnia verba præcipitationis; lingua dolosa.[fn]
(You_loved everything words precipitation; tongue/language deceitful.)

51.6 Lingua dolosa. Ibid. Id est, dolosa verba fallaciæ ministra, aliud in corde gestantium, aliud in ore promentium.

51.6 Lingua deceitful. There. That it_is, deceitful words deceit serve, something_else in/into/on heart bearing, something_else in/into/on vocally bringing_forth.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

כָֽל־דִּבְרֵי־בָ֗לַע

all (Some words not found in UHB: love all words_of devour tongue_of deceitful )

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of destruction, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [all words that destroy others]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

כָֽל־דִּבְרֵי־בָ֗לַע

all (Some words not found in UHB: love all words_of devour tongue_of deceitful )

David is using the term words to represent what Doeg says by using words. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [to say anything that will destroy other people]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche

לְשׁ֣וֹן מִרְמָֽה

tongue_of deceitful

David is using one part of Doeg, his tongue, to represent all of him in the act of saying things that betrayed innocent people to their deaths. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [you treacherous person]

Parallel PSA 52:4