Psalms 12:4

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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  • Jas 3:5-6 : 5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
  • Gen 3:5 : 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
  • Exod 5:2 : 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
  • Jer 2:31 : 31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against emiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
  • Dan 3:15 : 15 Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
  • 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 12:2-3
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    2They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering li and with a double heart do they speak.

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

  • Ps 59:12
    74%

    12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their li let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

  • Ps 59:7
    73%

    7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their li: for who, say they, doth hear?

  • Ps 73:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

    9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

  • Ps 2:2-4
    3 verses
    72%

    2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

    3Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

    4He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

  • Lam 5:8
    72%

    8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

  • Ps 94:4
    72%

    4How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

  • Ps 17:10-11
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    71%

    10They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

    11They have now compassed us in our ste: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

  • Ps 31:18
    71%

    18Let the lying li be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

  • Ps 12:5
    71%

    5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

  • Lam 3:46
    71%

    46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

  • Ps 140:9
    71%

    9As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own li cover them.

  • Mal 3:13
    70%

    13Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

  • Ps 83:12
    70%

    12Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

  • Ps 35:25
    69%

    25Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

  • Ps 123:4
    69%

    4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

  • Isa 26:13
    69%

    13O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

  • Ps 124:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

    6Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

  • Amos 6:13
    68%

    13Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

  • Acts 4:25
    68%

    25Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?

  • Ps 5:9
    68%

    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

  • Isa 57:4
    68%

    4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

  • Ps 120:2-3
    2 verses
    68%

    2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying li, and from a deceitful tongue.

    3What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?

  • Ps 140:3
    68%

    3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their li. Selah.

  • Lam 3:62
    68%

    62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

  • Job 15:5-6
    2 verses
    68%

    5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

    6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

  • Isa 59:13
    68%

    13In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

  • Ps 64:8
    68%

    8So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

  • Ps 10:7
    67%

    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  • Ps 126:2
    67%

    2Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.

  • Jer 5:12
    67%

    12They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

  • Prov 14:3
    67%

    3In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of ide: but the lips of the wise shall eserve them.

  • Lam 2:16
    67%

    16All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

  • Job 26:4
    67%

    4To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

  • Lam 4:20
    67%

    20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

  • 1 Sam 2:3
    67%

    3Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

  • Isa 28:11
    67%

    11For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

  • Ps 51:15
    67%

    15O Lord, open thou my li; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

  • Lam 3:37
    67%

    37Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

  • Rom 3:13-14
    2 verses
    67%

    13Their that is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

  • Zeph 2:10
    67%

    10This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.