For I don't know how to give flattering titles; or else my Maker would soon take me away.
Psalm 12:3 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 don't know how to give flattering titles; or else my Maker would soon take me away.
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
The enemy said, 'I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.
As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Yerushalayim and of Shomron;
None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you: don't believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.
Son of man, tell the prince of Tzor, Thus says the Lord GOD: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you did set your heart as the heart of God--
Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.
Speak and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: *Behold, I am against you, Par`oh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, 'My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.'
He shall speak words against the Elyon, and shall wear out the holy ones of the Elyon; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
*Your words have been stout against me,* says the LORD. *Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Don't let arrogance come out of your mouth, For the LORD is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.