Psalms 12:2
1 Help, O LORD, for the godly are no more; the faithful have vanished from among men.
They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
3 May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.
4 They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
- KJV
- They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
- WEB
- Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
- ASV
- They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.
- DARBY
- They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak.
- BLB
- Vanity they speak, each man with his neighbor; [with] lips of flattery with a double heart they speak.
- ÅB
- Hver enkelt lyver for sin neste;
de taler med falske lepper og med tvesinnet hjerte. - OTB
- De taler svikefullt til hverandre;
de bruker smigrende lepper og har dobbelthet i hjertet. - B1930
- Løgn taler de, hver med sin næste, med falske leber; med tvesinnet hjerte taler de.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 16:18
For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
Read in contextJeremiah 9:8
Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.
Read in contextPsalms 41:6
My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.
Read in contextPsalms 144:8
whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
Read in contextPsalms 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
Read in contextPsalms 5:9
For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
Read in contextPsalms 28:3
Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.
Read in contextJames 1:8
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
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