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.
Read in contextJeremiah 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.
Read in contextPsalms 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.
Read in contextPsalms 144:8
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Read in contextPsalms 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Read in contextPsalms 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.
Read in contextPsalms 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.
Read in contextJames 1:8
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
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