Psalms 12:4
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 So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest! 6 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.{Gehenna is a name that describes a burning Hell with rotting bodies and unclean things in it}
- Gen 3:5 : 5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
- Exod 5:2 : 2 Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don't know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go."
- Job 21:14-15 : 14 They tell God, 'Depart from us, For we don't want to know about your ways. 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
- Jer 2:31 : 31 Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? or a land of thick darkness? why say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more to you?
- Jer 18:18 : 18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices 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 strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
- Dan 3:15 : 15 Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to you fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]: but if you don't worship, you 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 he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
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- Ps 12:2-32 verses81%
2 Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
3 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, And the tongue that boasts,
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12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, Let them be caught in their pride, For the curses and lies which they utter.
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7 Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"
- Ps 73:8-92 verses72%
8 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
9 They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.
- Ps 2:2-43 verses72%
2 The kings of the earth take a stand, And the rulers take counsel together, Against Yahweh, and against his anointed,{The word "anointed" is the same as the word for "Messiah" or "Christ"} saying,
3 "Let's break their bonds apart, And cast away their cords from us."
4 He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
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8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
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4 They pour out arrogant words. All the evil-doers boast.
- Ps 17:10-112 verses71%
10 They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.
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18 Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
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5 "Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."
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46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
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9 As for the head of those who surround me, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
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13 "Your words have been stout against me," says Yahweh. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'
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12 Who said, "Let us take possession Of God's pasturelands."
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25 Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"
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4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, With the contempt of the proud.
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13 Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us; but by you only will we make mention of your name.
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5 Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
6 Blessed be Yahweh, Who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
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13 You who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, 'Haven't we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?'
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25 who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, 'Why do the nations rage, And the peoples plot a vain thing?
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9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
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4 Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,
- Ps 120:2-32 verses68%
2 Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, From a deceitful tongue.
3 What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, You deceitful tongue?
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3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.
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62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
- Job 15:5-62 verses68%
5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.
6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; Yes, your own lips testify against you.
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13 transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
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8 Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.
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7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
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2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great things for them."
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12 They have denied Yahweh, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
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3 The fool's talk brings a rod to his back, But the lips of the wise protect them.
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16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; 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.
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4 To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you?
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20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.
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3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Don't let arrogance come out of your mouth; For Yahweh is a God of knowledge, By him actions are weighed.
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11 No, but by [men of] strange lips and with another language will he speak to this people;
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15 Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.
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37 Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't command it?
- Rom 3:13-142 verses67%
13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"
14 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."
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10 This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Hosts.