For I do not know how to flatter, lest my Maker should soon take me away!
Psalm 12:3 - The Scriptures 1998 יהוה does cut off all flattering lips, A tongue that speaks swelling words, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, And the tongue that speaketh proud things: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition May the Lord cut off all flattering lips and the tongues that speak proud boasting, American Standard Version (1901) Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaketh great things; Common English Bible Let the LORD cut off all slick-talking lips and every tongue that brags and brags, Catholic Public Domain Version How long will my enemy be exalted over me? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? |
For I do not know how to flatter, lest my Maker should soon take me away!
I have known that יהוה maintains The cause of the afflicted, The right-ruling of the poor.
They are enclosed in their own fat, They speak proudly with their mouths,
Cast your burden on יהוה, And let Him sustain you; He never allows the righteous to be shaken.
“The enemy said, ‘I pursue, I overtake, I divide the spoil, my being is satisfied on them. I draw out my sword, my hand destroys them.’
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.
‘As my hand has found the reigns of the idols, whose carved images excelled those of Yerushalayim and Shomeron,
No one calls for righteousness, and no one pleads for truth. They trust in emptiness and speak worthlessness; they conceive trouble and bring forth wickedness.
“For even your brothers, the house of your father, even they have betrayed you, even they have cried aloud after you. Do not believe them, even though they speak smooth words to you.
“Their tongue is an arrow shot out. It speaks deceit – speaks peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart he sets his ambush.
“Son of man, say to the prince of Tsor, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “Because your heart is lifted up, and you say, ‘I am Ě
“Would you still say before him who slays you, ‘I am Elohim’, whereas you are man, and not Ě
“Speak, and you shall say, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am against you, O Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, O great monster who lies in the midst of his rivers, who has said, ‘My River is my own, and I, I have made it for myself.’
and it speaks words against the Most High, and it wears out the set-apart ones of the Most High, and it intends to change appointed times and law, and they are given into its hand for a time and times and half a time.
“I was thinking about the horns, then saw another horn, a little one, coming up among them, and three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots before it. And see, eyes like the eyes of a man were in this horn, and a mouth speaking great words.
“Your words have been harsh against Me,” said יהוה, “but you have said, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
For speaking arrogant nonsense, they entice – through the lusts of the flesh, through indecencies – the ones who have indeed escaped from those living in delusion,
These are grumblers, complainers, who walk according to their own lusts, and their mouth speaks proudly, admiring faces of others for the sake of gain.
And he was given a mouth speaking great matters and blasphemies, and he was given authority to do so forty-two months.
“Do not multiply words so proudly, proudly; let no arrogance come from your mouth, for יהוה is an Ě