Psalms 12:3

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“May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.”

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BSBPD

“May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaketh great things;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 12:3 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 15:9The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’
  2. 1 Samuel 2:3Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.
  3. 1 Samuel 17:43“Am I a dog,” he said to David, “that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
  4. 2 Kings 19:23Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.
  5. Job 32:22For I do not know how to flatter, or my Maker would remove me in an instant.
  6. Psalms 17:10They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.
  7. Psalms 55:22Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
  8. Psalms 73:8They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.
  9. Psalms 116:11In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”
  10. Psalms 140:12I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.
  11. Proverbs 18:21Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
  12. Proverbs 26:24A hateful man disguises himself with his speech, but he lays up deceit in his heart.
  13. Isaiah 10:10As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
  14. Isaiah 59:4No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
  15. Jeremiah 9:8Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.
  16. Jeremiah 12:6Even your brothers— your own father’s household— even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.
  17. Ezekiel 28:2“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.
  18. Ezekiel 28:9Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.
  19. Ezekiel 29:3Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’
  20. Daniel 4:30the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
  21. Daniel 7:8While I was contemplating the horns, suddenly another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like those of a man and a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.
  22. Daniel 7:25He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for a time, and times, and half a time.
  23. Malachi 3:13“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
  24. 2 Peter 2:18With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.

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