Psalms 12:3

In 11 translations

BSB

May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.

KJV

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

WEB

May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

ASV

Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaketh great things;

LSV

YHWH cuts off all lips of flattery, || A tongue speaking great things,

YLT

Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,

DBY

Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh proud things,

DRC11:4

May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things.

GNV

The Lord cut off all flattering lippes, and the tongue that speaketh proude things:

JPS12:4

May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh proud things!

LXXE11:4

Let the Lord destroy all the deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaks great words:

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WLC12:4

יַכְרֵ֣ת יְ֭הוָה כָּל־שִׂפְתֵ֣י חֲלָק֑וֹת לָ֝שׁ֗וֹן מְדַבֶּ֥רֶת גְּדֹלֽוֹת׃KJV:Ps.12.3

LXX-Br11:4

Ἐξολοθρεύσαι Κύριος πάντα τὰ χείλη τὰ δόλια, καὶ γλῶσσαν μεγαλοῤῥήμονα· Ἐπίβλεψον, εἰσάκουσόν μου, Κύριε ὁ Θεός μου· φώτισον τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς μου, μή ποτε ὑπνώσω εἰς θάνατον·

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• Proverbs 18:21Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
• Daniel 7:8While I was contemplating the horns, suddenly another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like those of a man and a mouth that spoke words of…
• Revelation 13:5The beast was given a mouth to speak arrogant and blasphemous words, and authority to act for 42 months.
• Psalms 17:10They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.
• Psalms 73:8–9They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression. They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.
• Ezekiel 28:2“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though…
• Malachi 3:13“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
• 1 Samuel 17:43–44“Am I a dog,” he said to David, “that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. “Come here,” he called to David, “and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the…
• Daniel 7:25He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for a time, and times, and half a time.
• Ezekiel 28:9Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.
• 2 Peter 2:18With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
• 2 Kings 19:23–24Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest…
• Jude 1:16These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.
• Daniel 4:30–31the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?” While the words were still in the king’s mouth, a voice came…
• Exodus 15:9The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’
• Ezekiel 29:3Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’

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