Psalms 52:3 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 52:3

Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

KJV

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ASV

Thou lovest evil more than good, And lying rather than to speak righteousness. [Selah

WEB

You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah

YLT

Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah.

DBT

Thou hast loved evil rather than good, lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Jeremiah 9:3–5
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.
2 Timothy 3:4
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Revelation 22:15
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
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;

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He accuses him of the wickedness of his tongue (that unruly evil, full of deadly poison) and the wickedness of his heart, which that was an evidence of.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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