Psalms 12:2

Read in context

Psalms 12:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

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

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

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

4 They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”

Hebrew words

Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Study Psalms 12:2

Read the commentary on Psalms 12

Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 10:7

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

Psalms 36:3

The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.

Psalms 36:4

Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.

Psalms 38:12

Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.

Psalms 41:6

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

Psalms 52:1

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

Psalms 52:2

Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

Psalms 52:3

You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah

Psalms 52:4

You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.

Psalms 59:12

By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.

Psalms 144:8

whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

Psalms 144:11

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

Jeremiah 9:2

If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.

Jeremiah 9:3

“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:4

“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.

Jeremiah 9:5

Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.

Jeremiah 9:6

You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:8

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.

Psalms 5:9

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

Psalms 28:3

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.

Psalms 62:4

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

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

Proverbs 29:5

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Ezekiel 12:24

For there will be no more false visions or flattering divinations within the house of Israel,

Romans 16:18

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.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

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

1 Chronicles 12:33

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.

James 1:8

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