Psalm 12:3 - New International Version (Anglicised)

³ May the Lord silence all flattering lips and every boastful tongue –

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, And the tongue that speaketh proud things:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ May the Lord cut off all flattering lips and the tongues that speak proud boasting,

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaketh great things;

Common English Bible

³ Let the LORD cut off all slick-talking lips and every tongue that brags and brags,

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ How long will my enemy be exalted over me?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

Psalm 12:3 Tagairtí Cros

Job 32:22

for if I were skilled in flattery, my Maker would soon take me away.

Psalm 116:11

in my alarm I said, ‘Everyone is a liar.’

Psalm 140:12

I know that the Lord secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy.

Psalm 17:10

They close up their callous hearts, and their mouths speak with arrogance.

Psalm 55:22

Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.

Exodus 15:9

The enemy boasted, “I will pursue, I will overtake them. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword and my hand will destroy them.”

Proverbs 18:21

The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Proverbs 26:24

Enemies disguise themselves with their lips, but in their hearts they harbour deceit.

Isaiah 10:10

As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols, kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria –

Isaiah 59:4

No-one calls for justice; no-one pleads a case with integrity. They rely on empty arguments, they utter lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.

Jeremiah 12:6

Your relatives, members of your own family – even they have betrayed you; they have raised a loud cry against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully. With their mouths they all speak cordially to their neighbours, but in their hearts they set traps for them.

Ezekiel 28:2

‘Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘ “In the pride of your heart you say, ‘I am a god; I sit on the throne of a god in the heart of the seas.’ But you are a mere mortal and not a god, though you think you are as wise as a god.

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you then say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who kill you? You will be but a mortal, not a god, in the hands of those who slay you.

Ezekiel 29:3

Speak to him and say: “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘ “I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, you great monster lying among your streams. You say, ‘The Nile belongs to me; I made it for myself.’

Daniel 7:25

He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time.

Daniel 7:8

‘While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a human being and a mouth that spoke boastfully.

Malachi 3:13

‘You have spoken arrogantly against me,’ says the Lord. ‘Yet you ask, “What have we said against you?”

2 Peter 2:18

For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error.

Jude 1:16

These people are grumblers and fault-finders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.

Revelation 13:5

The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months.

1 Samuel 2:3

‘Do not keep talking so proudly or let your mouth speak such arrogance, for the Lord is a God who knows, and by him deeds are weighed.