Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; ¹  it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver. ² 

biblegateway Psa 52:2

Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.

Like a sharpened razor, your tongue devises destruction, working treachery.

Your tongue makes up threats. It’s like a sharp razor, you master of deceit.

biblegateway Psa 52:2

Your tongue plots destruction; it is like a sharpened razor, you who practise deceit.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.

bibleoremus Psa 52:2

you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.

You plan destruction; your slanderous tongue is sharp as a razor.

biblegateway Psa 52:2

Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

biblegateway Psa 52:2

Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; ¹  it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver. ² 

¹ tn Heb “destruction your tongue devises.”

² tn Heb “like a sharpened razor, doer of deceit.” The masculine participle עָשָׂה (’asah) is understood as a substantival vocative, addressed to the powerful man.