Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking the truth. New Living Translation You love evil more than good and lies more than truth. Interlude English Standard Version You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah Berean Standard Bible You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah King James Bible Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. New King James Version You love evil more than good, Lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah New American Standard Bible You love evil more than good, Lies more than speaking what is right. Selah NASB 1995 You love evil more than good, Falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah. NASB 1977 You love evil more than good, Falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah. Legacy Standard Bible You love evil more than good, Falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah. Amplified Bible You love evil more than good, And falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah. Christian Standard Bible You love evil instead of good, lying instead of speaking truthfully. Selah Holman Christian Standard Bible You love evil instead of good, lying instead of speaking truthfully. Selah American Standard Version Thou lovest evil more than good, And lying rather than to speak righteousness. [Selah Aramaic Bible in Plain English You have loved evil more than good, and lying more than speaking righteousness. Brenton Septuagint Translation Thou hast loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause. Contemporary English Version You would rather do evil than good, and tell lies than speak the truth. Douay-Rheims Bible Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness. English Revised Version Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah GOD'S WORD® Translation You prefer evil to good. You prefer lying to speaking the truth. [Selah] Good News Translation You love evil more than good and falsehood more than truth. International Standard Version You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking uprightly. Interlude JPS Tanakh 1917 Thou lovest evil more than good; Falsehood rather than speaking righteousness. Selah Literal Standard Version You have loved evil rather than good, | Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah. Majority Standard Bible You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah New American Bible You love evil more than good, lying rather than saying what is right. Selah NET Bible You love evil more than good, lies more than speaking the truth. (Selah) New Revised Standard Version You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking the truth. Selah New Heart English Bible You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah. Webster's Bible Translation Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. World English Bible You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah. Young's Literal Translation Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Why Do You Boast of Evil?…2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. 3You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah 4You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.… Cross References Psalm 5:9 For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. Psalm 36:4 Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil. Psalm 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth. Proverbs 21:10 The soul of the wicked man craves evil; his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes. Jeremiah 9:5 Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity. Treasury of Scripture You love evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. lovest Jeremiah 4:22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. Micah 3:2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. lying Psalm 62:4 They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah. Jeremiah 9:3-5,8 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD… John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. Jump to Previous Deceit Evil Falsehood Good Love Loved Rather Right Righteousness Selah Speak Speaking Truth WorksJump to Next Deceit Evil Falsehood Good Love Loved Rather Right Righteousness Selah Speak Speaking Truth WorksPsalm 52 1. David, condemning the spitefulness of Doeg, prophesies his destruction6. The righteous shall rejoice at it 8. David, upon his confidence in God's mercy, gives thanks Verse 3. - Thou lovest evil more than good. To "love evil" is to have reached the lowest depth of depravity. It is to say, with Milton's Satan, "Evil, be thou my good!" And lying rather than to speak righteousness (see the comment on ver. 2). Doeg's crimes seem to have arisen out of a mere love of evil. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew You loveאָהַ֣בְתָּ (’ā·haḇ·tā) Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 157: To have affection f evil רָּ֣ע (rā‘) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 7451: Bad, evil more than good, מִטּ֑וֹב (miṭ·ṭō·wḇ) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good falsehood שֶׁ֓קֶר ׀ (še·qer) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 8267: Deception, disappointment, falsehood more than speaking מִדַּבֵּ֖ר (mid·dab·bêr) Preposition-m | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue the truth. צֶ֣דֶק (ṣe·ḏeq) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6664: The right, equity, prosperity Selah סֶֽלָה׃ (se·lāh) Interjection Strong's 5542: Suspension, pause Links Psalm 52:3 NIVPsalm 52:3 NLT Psalm 52:3 ESV Psalm 52:3 NASB Psalm 52:3 KJV Psalm 52:3 BibleApps.com Psalm 52:3 Biblia Paralela Psalm 52:3 Chinese Bible Psalm 52:3 French Bible Psalm 52:3 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 52:3 You love evil more than good lying (Psalm Ps Psa.) |