Psalms 52:5

"You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue."

Key Reflection

This verse portrays the speaker as one who delights in destructive speech and a tongue that is dishonest and deceitful. Such words are compared to consuming fire, illustrating their power to cause harm and ruin others' lives.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever -Margin, “beat thee down.” The Hebrew word means to “tear, to break down, to destroy:”Leviticus 14:45;Judges 6:30. The reference here is not to the “tongue” alluded to in the previous verses, but to Doeg himself. The language in the verse is intensive and emphatic. The main idea is presented in a variety of forms, all designed to denote utter and absolute destruction - a complete and entire sweeping away, so that nothing should be left.

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