Psalm 12:4 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

⁴ those who say, “With our tongues we will prevail; our lips are our own—who is our master?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; Our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Those who say, With our tongues we prevail; our lips are our own [to command at our will]–who is lord and master over us?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; Our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

Common English Bible

⁴ that says, “We’re unbeatable with our tongues! Who could get the best of us with lips like ours?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Look upon me and listen to me, O Lord my God. Enlighten my eyes, lest I fall asleep forever in death,

Psalm 12:4 Cross References

Genesis 3:5

for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Psalm 140:12

I know that the Lord maintains the cause of the needy, and executes justice for the poor.

Exodus 5:2

But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should heed him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.”

Proverbs 10:31

The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah—for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us bring charges against him, and let us not heed any of his words.”

Jeremiah 2:31

And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord! Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, “We are free, we will come to you no more”?

Daniel 3:15

Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, drum, and entire musical ensemble to fall down and worship the statue that I have made, well and good. But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire, and who is the god that will deliver you out of my hands?”

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, declaring himself to be God.