Psalm 12:2

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Summary

Psalm 12:2

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

Flattering

A double heart

1 Chronicles 12:33

General references

Bible References

Flattering

For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart is mischiefs, An open grave is their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.

Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart.

Only -- from his excellency They have consulted to drive away, They enjoy a lie, with their mouth they bless, And with their heart revile. Selah.

A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver with his lips make not thyself surety.

A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.

For there is no more any vain vision, and flattering divination, In the midst of the house of Israel.

for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless,

for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God is witness!)

A double heart

Of Zebulun, going forth to the host, arranging battle with all instruments of battle, are fifty thousand, and keeping rank without a double heart.

General references

and Laban saith, 'It is better for me to give her to thee than to give her to another man; dwell with me;'

And Delilah saith unto Samson, 'Declare, I pray thee, to me, wherein thy great power is, and wherewith thou art bound, to afflict thee.'

Why dost Thou shew me iniquity, And perversity dost cause to behold? And spoiling and violence are before me, And there is strife, and contention doth lift itself up,

and the populace were shouting, 'The voice of a god, and not of a man;'