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New American Standard Bible
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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.
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.
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
Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.
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Cross References
Psalm 41:6
And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words, while his heart gathers iniquity; when he goes out, he tells it abroad.
Romans 16:18
For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
Psalm 10:7
His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.
1 Chronicles 12:33
Of Zebulun 50,000 seasoned troops, equipped for battle with all the weapons of war, to help David with singleness of purpose.
Psalm 5:9
For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.
Psalm 28:3
Do not drag me off with the wicked, with the workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors while evil is in their hearts.
Psalm 144:8
whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
James 1:8
he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Psalm 36:3-4
The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.
Psalm 38:12
Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long.
Psalm 52:1-4
Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day.
Psalm 55:21
His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
Psalm 59:12
For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies that they utter,
Psalm 62:4
They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah
Psalm 144:11
Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Proverbs 20:19
Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.
Proverbs 29:5
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
Jeremiah 9:2-6
Oh that I had in the desert a travelers' lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.
Ezekiel 12:24
For there shall be no more any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed--God is witness.