Psalm 12:3

New Living Translation

May the Lord cut off their flattering lips and silence their boastful tongues.

Cross References

Job 32:22

For if I tried flattery, my Creator would soon destroy me.

Psalm 116:11

In my anxiety I cried out to you, “These people are all liars!”

Psalm 140:12

But I know the Lord will help those they persecute; he will give justice to the poor.

Psalm 17:10

They are without pity. Listen to their boasting!

Psalm 55:22

Give your burdens to the Lord, and he will take care of you. He will not permit the godly to slip and fall.

Exodus 15:9

“The enemy boasted, ‘I will chase them and catch up with them. I will plunder them and consume them. I will flash my sword; my powerful hand will destroy them.’

Proverbs 18:21

The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences.

Proverbs 26:24

People may cover their hatred with pleasant words, but they’re deceiving you.

Isaiah 10:10

Yes, we have finished off many a kingdom whose gods were greater than those in Jerusalem and Samaria.

Isaiah 59:4

No one cares about being fair and honest. The people’s lawsuits are based on lies. They conceive evil deeds and then give birth to sin.

Jeremiah 12:6

Even your brothers, members of your own family, have turned against you. They plot and raise complaints against you. Do not trust them, no matter how pleasantly they speak.

Jeremiah 9:8

For their tongues shoot lies like poisoned arrows. They speak friendly words to their neighbors while scheming in their heart to kill them.

Ezekiel 28:2

“Son of man, give the prince of Tyre this message from the Sovereign Lord: “In your great pride you claim, ‘I am a god! I sit on a divine throne in the heart of the sea.’ But you are only a man and not a god, though you boast that you are a god.

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you then boast, ‘I am a god!’ to those who kill you? To them you will be no god but merely a man!

Ezekiel 29:3

Give them this message from the Sovereign Lord: “I am your enemy, O Pharaoh, king of Egypt— you great monster, lurking in the streams of the Nile. For you have said, ‘The Nile River is mine; I made it for myself.’

Daniel 7:25

He will defy the Most High and oppress the holy people of the Most High. He will try to change their sacred festivals and laws, and they will be placed under his control for a time, times, and half a time.

Daniel 7:8

As I was looking at the horns, suddenly another small horn appeared among them. Three of the first horns were torn out by the roots to make room for it. This little horn had eyes like human eyes and a mouth that was boasting arrogantly.

Malachi 3:13

“You have said terrible things about me,” says the Lord. “But you say, ‘What do you mean? What have we said against you?’

2 Peter 2:18

They brag about themselves with empty, foolish boasting. With an appeal to twisted sexual desires, they lure back into sin those who have barely escaped from a lifestyle of deception.

Jude 1:16

These people are grumblers and complainers, living only to satisfy their desires. They brag loudly about themselves, and they flatter others to get what they want.

Revelation 13:5

Then the beast was allowed to speak great blasphemies against God. And he was given authority to do whatever he wanted for forty-two months.

1 Samuel 2:3

“Stop acting so proud and haughty! Don’t speak with such arrogance! For the Lord is a God who knows what you have done; he will judge your actions.