John Trapp on Psalms 52:4

Verſ. 4. Thou loveſt all devouring words] Verba devoratoria, the Greek hath it, [non-Latin text not transcribed], that devoure and ſwallow up, ſo as the Sea doth things caſt into it. So elſewhere, their throat is an open ſepulchre, which devoureth all bodies but rendreth none without a Miracle. Some render it, Verba voraginis, the words of a Whirlpool, which firſt turns men round, and then lucks them in. Others, Verba abſorptionis, in reference to that uſe of the tongue, which is to ſup up diſh-meats; Sic lingua attrahit homines it[illegible: 1 letter] ut abſorbeautur, ſaith Vatablus. The vulgar hath it, Verba precipitationis, words that hurl one down headlong, Ex edites adium vel rupium, as Hilary hath it, from the top of houſes, or high rocks.

O thou deceitful tongue] Becauſe although it were for moſt part truth that hee ſpake, yet he did it maliciouſly, and by diſhmulation paſled over that which might have made for Ahimelech, viz. that he releeved David in the ſimplicity of his heart, as thinking him to be high in the Kings favour, and employed by him. Egeſippus ſaith of Pilate, that he was Vir neguam, & parvi faciens mendacium, a naughty man and one that made no bones of a Lye; ſuch another was Doeg. D excid. Jeruſ 1.2. c. 5.