Psalms 12:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Jas 3:5-6 : 5 so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle! 6 and the tongue `is' a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.
  • Gen 3:5 : 5 for God doth know that in the day of your eating of it -- your eyes have been opened, and ye have been as God, knowing good and evil.'
  • Exod 5:2 : 2 and Pharaoh saith, `Who `is' Jehovah, that I hearken to His voice, to send Israel away? I have not known Jehovah, and Israel also I do not send away.'
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired. 15 What `is' the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'
  • Jer 2:31 : 31 O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah: A wilderness have I been to Israel? A land of thick darkness? Wherefore have My people said, `We mourned, We come not in again unto Thee.'
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.
  • Dan 3:15 : 15 Now, lo, ye are ready, so that at the time that ye hear the voice of the cornet, the flute, the harp, the sackbut, the psaltery, and the symphony, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and do obeisance to the image that I have made! -- and lo, ye do no obeisance -- in that hour ye are cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; who is that God who doth deliver you out of my hands?'
  • 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 who is opposing and is raising himself up above all called God or worshipped, so that he in the sanctuary of God as God hath sat down, shewing himself off that he is God -- `the day doth not come'.

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

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

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    8They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.

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

  • Ps 2:2-4
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    2Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:

    3`Let us draw off Their cords, And cast from us Their thick bands.'

    4He who is sitting in the heavens doth laugh, The Lord doth mock at them.

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    8Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

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    4They utter -- they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.

  • Ps 17:10-11
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    10Their fat they have closed up, Their mouths have spoken with pride:

    11`Our steps now have compassed `him';' Their eyes they set to turn aside in the land.

  • Ps 31:18
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    18Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

  • Ps 12:5
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    5Because of the spoiling of the poor, Because of the groaning of the needy, Now do I arise, saith Jehovah, I set in safety `him who' doth breathe for it.

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    46Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies.

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

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    13Hard against Me have been your words, Said Jehovah, and ye have said: `What have we spoken against Thee?'

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    12Who have said, `Let us occupy for ourselves The comely places of God.'

  • Ps 35:25
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    25They do not say in their heart, `Aha, our desire.' They do not say, `We swallowed him up.'

  • Ps 123:4
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    4Greatly hath our soul been filled With the scorning of the easy ones, With the contempt of the arrogant!

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    13O Jehovah our God, lords have ruled us besides Thee, Only, by Thee we make mention of Thy name.

  • Ps 124:5-6
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    5Then passed over our soul had the proud waters.

    6Blessed `is' Jehovah who hath not given us, A prey to their teeth.

  • Amos 6:13
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    13O ye who are rejoicing at nothing, Who are saying, `Have we not by our strength taken to ourselves horns?'

  • Acts 4:25
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    25who, through the mouth of David thy servant, did say, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things?

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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.

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    4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom enlarge ye the mouth? Prolong ye the tongue? Are not ye children of transgression? a false seed?

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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!

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

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    62The lips of my withstanders, Even their meditation against me all the day.

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    5For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.

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    13Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostacy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood.

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

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

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    2Then filled `with' laughter is our mouth, And our tongue `with' singing, Then do they say among nations, `Jehovah did great things with these.'

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    12They have lied against Jehovah, And they say, ``It is' not He, Nor come in against us doth evil, Yea, sword and famine we do not see.

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

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    16Opened against thee their mouth have all thine enemies, They have hissed, yea, they gnash the teeth, They have said: `We have swallowed `her' up, Surely this `is' the day that we looked for, We have found -- we have seen.'

  • Job 26:4
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    4With whom hast thou declared words? And whose breath came forth from thee?

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    20The breath of our nostrils -- the anointed of Jehovah, Hath been captured in their pits, of whom we said: `In his shadow we do live among nations.'

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    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.

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

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    15O Lord, my lips thou dost open, And my mouth declareth Thy praise.

  • Lam 3:37
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    37Who `is' this -- he hath said, and it is, `And' the Lord hath not commanded `it'?

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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.

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