Psalms 12:2

1 Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

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 they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

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  • Jeremiah 9:8

    Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

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  • Psalms 41:6

    And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

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  • Psalms 144:8

    Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

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  • Psalms 10:7

    His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

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  • Psalms 5:9

    For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

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  • Psalms 28:3

    Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

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  • James 1:8

    A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

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