Psalm 12:2 - Revised Version 1885

² They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: With flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² To his neighbor each one speaks words without use or worth or truth; with flattering lips and double heart [deceitfully] they speak.

American Standard Version (1901)

² They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

Common English Bible

² Everyone tells lies to everyone else; they talk with slick speech and divided hearts.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² How long can I take counsel in my soul, sorrowing in my heart throughout the day?

Psalm 12:2 Cross References

1 Chronicles 12:33

Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the host, that could set the battle in array, with all manner of instruments of war, fifty thousand; and that could order the battle array, and were not of double heart.

Psalm 10:7

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Psalm 116:11

I said in my haste, All men are a lie.

Psalm 144:11

Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of strangers, Whose mouth speaketh vanity, And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Psalm 144:8

Whose mouth speaketh vanity, And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Psalm 28:3

Draw me not away with the wicked, And with the workers of iniquity; Which speak peace with their neighbours, But mischief is in their hearts

Psalm 38:12

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And imagine deceits all the day long.

Psalm 41:6

And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity; His heart gathereth iniquity to itself: When he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

Psalm 5:9

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness: Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.

Psalm 55:21

His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.

Psalm 59:12

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for cursing and lying which they speak.

Psalm 62:4

They only consult to thrust him down from his excellency; They delight in lies: They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah

Proverbs 20:19

He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: Therefore meddle not with him that openeth wide his lips.

Proverbs 20:6

Most men wilt proclaim every one his own kindness: But a faithful man who can find?

Proverbs 29:5

A man that flattereth his neighbour Spreadeth a net for his steps.

Jeremiah 7:28

And thou shalt say unto them, This is the nation that hath not hearkened to the voice of the LORD their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth wait for him.

Ezekiel 12:24

For there shall be no more any vain vision, nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.

Micah 7:2

The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

Romans 16:18

For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness, God is witness;

James 1:8

a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.