Psalm 12:2 “They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double…”

Psalm 12:2

They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

World English Bible

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

American Standard Version

They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

Geneva Bible 1599

They speake deceitfully euery one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips, and speake with a double heart.

Darby Translation

They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

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Cross references

“They”

Jeremiah 9:8 Psalm 41:6 Psalm 10:7 Psalm 144:8 Psalm 52:1–4 Psalm 144:11

Jeremiah 9:8 · BSB

Their 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.

Psalm 41:6 · BSB

My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.

Psalm 10:7 · BSB

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.

Psalm 144:8 · BSB

whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

Psalm 52:1–4 · BSB

Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.

Psalm 144:11 · BSB

Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

“flattering”

Romans 16:18 Psalm 5:9 Psalm 28:3 1 Thessalonians 2:5 Psalm 62:4 Proverbs 20:19

Romans 16:18 · BSB

For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

Psalm 5:9 · BSB

For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.

Psalm 28:3 · BSB

Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.

1 Thessalonians 2:5 · BSB

As you know, we never used words of flattery or any pretext for greed. God is our witness!

Psalm 62:4 · BSB

They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah

Proverbs 20:19 · BSB

He who reveals secrets is a constant gossip; avoid the one who babbles with his lips.

“a double heart”

James 1:8 1 Chronicles 12:33

James 1:8 · BSB

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

1 Chronicles 12:33 · BSB

From Zebulun: 50,000 fit for service, trained for battle with all kinds of weapons of war, who with one purpose were devoted to David.

Also

Psalm 55:21

Psalm 55:21 · BSB

His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Help, O LORD, for the godly are no more; the faithful have vanished from among men.

3May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.

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