Psalms 12:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • Dan 7:8 : 8 `I was considering about the horns, and lo, another horn, a little one, hath come up between them, and three of the first horns have been eradicated from before it, and lo, eyes as the eyes of man `are' in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.
  • Rev 13:5 : 5 And there was given to it a mouth speaking great things, and evil-speakings, and there was given to it authority to make war forty-two months,
  • Dan 4:30-31 : 30 the king hath answered and said, Is not this that great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, in the might of my strength, and for the glory of mine honour? 31 `While the word is `in' the king's mouth a voice from the heavens hath fallen: To thee they are saying: O Nebuchadnezzar the king, the kingdom hath passed from thee,
  • Ps 17:10 : 10 Their fat they have closed up, Their mouths have spoken with pride:
  • Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life `are' in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.
  • Isa 10:10 : 10 As my hand hath got to the kingdoms of a worthless thing, and their graven images, `Greater' than Jerusalem and than Samaria,
  • Ezek 28:2 : 2 `Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart hath been high, And thou dost say: A god I `am', The habitation of God I have inhabited, In the heart of the seas, And thou `art' man, and not God, And thou givest out thy heart as the heart of God,
  • Ezek 28:9 : 9 Dost thou really say, `I `am' God,' Before him who is slaying thee? And thou `art' man, and not God, In the hand of him who is piercing thee.
  • Ezek 29:3 : 3 Speak, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I `am' against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt! The great dragon that is crouching in the midst of his floods, Who hath said, My flood `is' my own, And I -- I have made it `for' myself.
  • Exod 15:9 : 9 The enemy said, I pursue, I overtake; I apportion spoil; Filled is my soul with them; I draw out my sword; My hand destroyeth them: --
  • 1 Sam 2:3 : 3 Ye multiply not -- ye speak haughtily -- The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge `is' Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.
  • 1 Sam 17:43-44 : 43 And the Philistine saith unto David, `Am I a dog that thou art coming unto me with staves?' and the Philistine revileth David by his gods, 44 and the Philistine saith unto David, `Come unto me, and I give thy flesh to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the field.'
  • 2 Kgs 19:23-24 : 23 By the hand of thy messengers Thou hast reproached the Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of mountains -- The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the lodging of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel. 24 I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.
  • Job 32:22 : 22 For I have not known to give flattering titles, In a little doth my Maker take me away.
  • Ps 73:8-9 : 8 They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak. 9 They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.
  • Dan 7:25 : 25 and words as an adversary of the Most High it doth speak, and the saints of the Most High it doth wear out, and it hopeth to change seasons and law; and they are given into its hand, till a time, and times, and a division of a time.
  • Mal 3:13 : 13 Hard against Me have been your words, Said Jehovah, and ye have said: `What have we spoken against Thee?'
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh -- lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

  • 4Who said, `By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips `are' our own; who `is' lord over us?'

  • 18Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

  • 12The sin of their mouth `is' a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.

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    31The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And the tongue of frowardness is cut out.

    32The lips of the righteous know a pleasing thing, And the mouth of the wicked perverseness!

  • 22An abomination to Jehovah `are' lying lips, And stedfast doers `are' his delight.

  • 28A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!

  • Ps 120:2-3
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    2O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!

    3What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue!

  • 19The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment -- a tongue of falsehood.

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    9For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart `is' mischiefs, An open grave `is' their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.

  • 24Turn aside from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee,

  • 10Their fat they have closed up, Their mouths have spoken with pride:

  • 4Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

  • 5Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not.

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    6Thou destroyest those speaking lies, A man of blood and deceit Jehovah doth abominate.

  • 9The chief of my surrounders, The perverseness of their lips covereth them.

  • 7Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue `is' perverseness and iniquity,

  • 2Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

  • 3In the mouth of a fool `is' a rod of pride, And the lips of the wise preserve them.

  • 11And the king doth rejoice in God, Boast himself doth every one swearing by Him, But stopped is the mouth of those speaking lies!

  • 3Ye multiply not -- ye speak haughtily -- The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge `is' Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.

  • 3They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder `is' under their lips. Selah.

  • 13Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

  • 3Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.

  • Ps 36:2-3
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    2For he made `it' smooth to himself in his eyes, To find his iniquity to be hated.

    3The words of his mouth `are' iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently -- to do good.

  • 9They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

  • Rom 3:13-14
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    13A sepulchre opened `is' their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps `is' under their lips.

    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

  • 7For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips `is' wickedness.

  • 4My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.

  • 2Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, A stranger, and not thine own lips.

  • 36And -- they deceive Him with their mouth, And with their tongue do lie to Him,

  • 12Words of the mouth of the wise `are' gracious, And the lips of a fool swallow him up.

  • 3Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.

  • 13The delight of kings `are' righteous lips, And whoso is speaking uprightly he loveth,

  • 7Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords `are' in their lips, for `Who heareth?'

  • 12For a day `is' to Jehovah of Hosts, For every proud and high one, And for every lifted up and low one,

  • 4An evil doer is attentive to lips of vanity, Falsehood is giving ear to a mischievous tongue.

  • 8Because their mouth hath spoken vanity, And their right hand `is' a right hand of falsehood.

  • 17Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --

  • 9Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled it, To pollute the excellency of all beauty, To make light all the honoured of earth.

  • 11For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people.

  • 3And they bend their tongue, their bow `is' a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!

  • 5A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.

  • 8And they cause him to stumble, Against them `is' their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.

  • 10This `is' to them for their arrogancy, Because they have reproached, And they magnify `themselves' against the people of Jehovah of Hosts.

  • 3He hath not slandered by his tongue, He hath not done to his friend evil; And reproach he hath not lifted up Against his neighbour.