Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Deception, speak they, every one with his neighbour, - with lips uttering smooth things - with a heart and a heart, do they speak.
New American Standard Bible
With
King James Version
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
Holman Bible
they speak with flattering lips and deceptive hearts.
International Standard Version
Everyone speaks lies to his neighbor; they speak with flattering lips and hidden motives.
A Conservative Version
They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak.
American Standard Version
They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.
Amplified
They speak deceitful and worthless words to one another;
With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
Bible in Basic English
Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.
Darby Translation
They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: with flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak.
Julia Smith Translation
They will speak vanity each with his neighbor: smooth lips, with a heart and a heart will they speak
King James 2000
They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They speak falseness {to each other}. [With] flattering lips, [with] {a double heart} they speak.
Modern King James verseion
They speak vanity each one with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They talk of vanity every one with his neighbour; they do but flatter with their lips, and dissemble in their double heart.
NET Bible
People lie to one another; they flatter and deceive.
New Heart English Bible
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
Webster
They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
World English Bible
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
Youngs Literal Translation
Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.
Themes
Flattery » The wicked use, to » Others
Heart » The unregenerate » Is double (duplicity)
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 12:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Oppression By The Wicked
1 O save Yahweh, for the man of lovingkindness, is no more, for the faithful, have vanished, from among the sons of men. 2 Deception, speak they, every one with his neighbour, - with lips uttering smooth things - with a heart and a heart, do they speak. 3 May Yahweh cut off All the lips that utter smooth things, - the tongue that speaketh swelling words;
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 41:6
And, if he have come to see me, Falsehood, doth he speak, His own heart, gathereth iniquity to itself, he goeth forth, abroad he telleth it.
Romans 16:18
For, they who are such, unto our Lord Christ are not doing service, but unto their own belly, - and, through their smooth and flattering speech, deceive the hearts of the innocent.
Psalm 10:7
With cursing, his mouth is full, and with deceptions and oppression, Under his tongue, are trouble and mischief:
Jeremiah 9:8
A pointed arrow, is their tongue Deceit, hath it spoken, - With his mouth peace unto his neighbour, doth one speak, But within himself, he layeth his ambush.
1 Chronicles 12:33
Of Zebulun - such as were ready to go forth in host, expert for battle with all weapons of war, fifty thousand, - and for setting in array, not of two minds!
Psalm 5:9
For in his mouth is nothing worthy of trust, Their inward purpose, is engulphing ruin, - An opened sepulchre, is their throat, With their tongue, speak they smooth things.
Psalm 28:3
Do not drag me away - with the lawless, or with the workers of iniquity, - who speak peaceably with their neighbours, but, wrong, is in their heart.
Psalm 144:8
Whose mouth, hath spoken deceit, and, whose right hand, is a right hand of falsehood.
James 1:8
A two-souled man, unstable in all his ways.
Psalm 36:3-4
The words of his mouth, are iniquity and deceit, he hath left off to show discretion by doing well:
Psalm 38:12
Yea they who are seeking my life, have laid snares, and they who are asking my harm, have threatened engulfing ruin, And, deceitful things - all day long, do they mutter.
Psalm 52:1-4
Why dost thou boast thyself of wickedness, O mighty man? The lovingkindness of GOD, lasteth all the day.
Psalm 55:21
Smoother than curds, were the words of his mouth, But, war, was in his heart, - Softer his words than oil, Yet, they, were drawn swords!
Psalm 59:12
The sin of their mouth, The word of their lips, Let them then be captured in their pride, Both for the oath and for the deception they record.
Psalm 62:4
Surely, from his elevation, they have taken counsel to thrust him down, They accept falsehood, - With his mouth, they each of them bless, But, inwardly, they revile. Selah.
Psalm 144:11
Snatch me away and rescue me out of he hand of the sons of the alien, - whose mouth hath spoken deceit, and, whose right hand, is a right hand of falsehood: -
Proverbs 20:19
A revealer of secrets, is one who goeth about talebearing, therefore, with him who openeth his lips, shalt thou not have fellowship.
Proverbs 29:5
A man who flattereth his neighbour, spreadeth, a net, over his steps.
Jeremiah 9:2-6
Oh that I had in the wilderness, a wayfarers lodge, That I might leave my people, and go from them, - For they all, are Adulterers, An assemblage of traitors;
Ezekiel 12:24
For there shall no more be - Any vision of falsehood Or divination of deceit, In the midst of the house of Israel.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For neither at any time were we found, using words of flattery, - even as ye know, nor a pretext for greed - God, is witness!