Psalms 12:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

Who have said, With our tongue we will prevail; our lips 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 boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is among our members, that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.
  • Gen 3:5 : 5 For God knows that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be like 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 do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go.
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 Therefore they say to God, 'Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.' 15 Who is the Almighty that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?
  • Jer 2:31 : 31 O generation, behold the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why do my people say, We are lords; we will come no more to you?
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
  • Dan 3:15 : 15 Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image which I have made, well; but if you do not worship, you shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God who shall deliver you out of my hands?
  • 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

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  • Ps 12:2-3
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    2They speak vanity everyone with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

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

  • Ps 59:12
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    12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and for the cursing and lying which they speak.

  • Ps 59:7
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    7Behold, they belch out with their mouths; swords are in their lips, for who, they say, hears?

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    8They are corrupt, and speak wickedly of oppression; they speak loftily.

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

  • Ps 2:2-4
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    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 bonds apart, and cast away their cords from us.

    4He who sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

  • Lam 5:8
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    8Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.

  • Ps 94:4
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    4How long shall they utter and speak arrogant things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

  • Ps 17:10-11
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    10They are enclosed in their own fat; with their mouth they speak proudly.

    11They have now surrounded us in our steps; they have set their eyes, bending down to the earth.

  • Ps 31:18
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    18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

  • Ps 12:5
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    5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him who puffs at him.

  • Lam 3:46
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    46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

  • Ps 140:9
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    9As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

  • Mal 3:13
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    13Your words have been harsh against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'.

  • Ps 83:12
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    12Who said, Let us take for ourselves the houses of God in possession.

  • Ps 35:25
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    25Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, this is what we wanted; let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

  • Ps 123:4
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    4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorn of those who are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

  • Isa 26:13
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    13O LORD our God, other lords beside You have had dominion over us, but by You only will we make mention of Your name.

  • Ps 124:5-6
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    5Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

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

  • Amos 6:13
    68%

    13You who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

  • Acts 4:25
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    25Who by the mouth of Your servant David has said, Why did the nations rage, and the people plot vain things?

  • Ps 5:9
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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

  • Isa 57:4
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    4Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

  • Ps 120:2-3
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    2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue.

    3What shall be given to you? Or what shall be done to you, you false tongue?

  • Ps 140:3
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    3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

  • Lam 3:62
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    62The lips of those who rose up against me, and their plot against me all day long.

  • Job 15:5-6
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    5For your mouth declares your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

    6Your own mouth condemns you, not I; yes, your own lips testify against you.

  • Isa 59:13
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    13In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

  • Ps 64:8
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    8So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves; all who 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
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    2Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then they said among the nations, The LORD has done great things for them.

  • Jer 5:12
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    12They have denied 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 pride, but the lips of the wise will preserve them.

  • Lam 2:16
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    16All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly, this is the day we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

  • Job 26:4
    67%

    4To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit came from you?

  • Lam 4:20
    67%

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

  • 1 Sam 2:3
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    3Talk no more so proudly; let not arrogance 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 my lips, and my mouth shall declare your praise.

  • Lam 3:37
    67%

    37Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not commanded it?

  • Rom 3:13-14
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    13'Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of vipers is under their lips.'

    14'Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.'

  • Zeph 2:10
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    10This they shall have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.