Psalms 12:2

In 11 translations

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.a double…: Heb. an heart and an heart

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.

LSV

They each speak vanity with his neighbor, || Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

YLT

Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

DBY

They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak.

DRC11:3

They have spoken vain things every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.

GNV

They speake deceitfully euery one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips, and speake with a double heart.

JPS12:3

They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour; with flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

LXXE11:3

Every one has spoken vanity to his neighbour: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart.

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WLC12:3

שָׁ֤וְא ׀ יְֽדַבְּרוּ֮ אִ֤ישׁ אֶת־רֵ֫עֵ֥הוּ שְׂפַ֥ת חֲלָק֑וֹת בְּלֵ֖ב וָלֵ֣ב יְדַבֵּֽרוּ׃KJV:Ps.12.2

LXX-Br11:3

Μάταια ἐλάλησεν ἕκαστος πρὸς τὸν πλησίον αὐτοῦ, χείλη δόλια, ἐν καρδίᾳ καὶ ἐν καρδίᾳ ἐλάλησαν. Ἕως τίνος θήσομαι βουλὰς ἐν ψυχῇ μου, ὀδύνας ἐν καρδίᾳ μου ἡμέρας; ἕως πότε ὑψωθήσεται ὁ ἐχθρός μου ἐπʼ ἐμέ;

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• Romans 16:18For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
• Jeremiah 9:8Their 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.
• Psalms 41:6My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.
• Psalms 5:9For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
• Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
• Psalms 144:8whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
• James 1:8He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
• Psalms 28:3Do 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.
• 1 Thessalonians 2:5As you know, we never used words of flattery or any pretext for greed. God is our witness!
• Psalms 52:1–4Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long. Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. You love evil more than good, falsehood more than…
• Ezekiel 12:24For there will be no more false visions or flattering divinations within the house of Israel,
• Proverbs 20:19He who reveals secrets is a constant gossip; avoid the one who babbles with his lips.
• Psalms 62:4They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah
• Psalms 55:21His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.
• Psalms 144:11Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
• Jeremiah 9:2–6If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people. “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth…

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