Psalm 12:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,

Cross References

Job 32:22

For I do not know how to flatter— or my Maker would soon put an end to me!

Psalm 116:11

I said in my consternation, “Everyone is a liar.”

Psalm 140:12

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

Psalm 17:10

They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.

Psalm 55:22

Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

Exodus 15:9

The enemy said, ‘I will pursue; I will overtake; I will divide the spoil; my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Proverbs 26:24

An enemy dissembles in speaking while harboring deceit within;

Isaiah 10:10

As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols whose images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

Isaiah 59:4

No one brings suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas; they speak lies, conceiving mischief and bearing iniquity.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even your kinsfolk and your own family, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them, though they speak friendly words to you.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit through the mouth. They all speak friendly words to their neighbors but inwardly are planning to lay an ambush.

Ezekiel 28:2

Mortal, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus says the Lord God: Because your heart is proud and you have said, “I am a god; I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,” yet you are but a mortal and no god, though you compare your mind with the mind of a god.

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you still say, “I am a god,” in the presence of those who kill you, though you are but a mortal and no god, in the hands of those who pierce you?

Ezekiel 29:3

speak and say: Thus says the Lord God: I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon sprawling in the midst of its channels, saying, “My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.”

Daniel 7:25

He shall speak words against the Most High, shall wear out the holy ones of the Most High, and shall attempt to change the ritual calendar and the law, and they shall be given into his power for a time, two times, and half a time.

Daniel 7:8

I was considering the horns when another horn appeared, a little one that came up among them. Three of the original horns were plucked up from before it. There were eyes like human eyes in this horn and a mouth speaking arrogantly.

Malachi 3:13

You have spoken harsh words against me, says the Lord. Yet you say, “How have we spoken against you?”

2 Peter 2:18

For they speak bombastic nonsense, and with debased desires of the flesh they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error.

Jude 1:16

These are grumblers and malcontents; they indulge their lusts; their mouths utter bombastic nonsense, flattering people to their own advantage.

Revelation 13:5

The beast was given a mouth speaking arrogant and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.

1 Samuel 2:3

Talk no more so very proudly; let not arrogance come from your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.