52:2 Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; 1
it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver. 2
52:3 You love evil more than good,
lies more than speaking the truth. 3 (Selah)
[52:2] 1 tn Heb “destruction your tongue devises.”
[52:2] 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.
[52:3] 3 tn Or “deceit more than speaking what is right.”
