Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
LORD will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaks great things,
New American Standard Bible
The tongue that
King James Version
The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
Holman Bible
and the tongue that speaks boastfully.
International Standard Version
The LORD will cut off all slippery lips, and the tongue that boasts great things,
American Standard Version
Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaketh great things;
Amplified
May the Lord cut off all flattering lips,
The tongue that speaks great things [in boasting];
Bible in Basic English
The smooth lips and the tongue of pride will be cut off by the Lord.
Darby Translation
Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh proud things,
Julia Smith Translation
Jehovah will cut off all smooth lips, and the tongue speaking great things:
King James 2000
The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things:
Lexham Expanded Bible
May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, [the] tongue speaking great boasts--
Modern King James verseion
Jehovah shall cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaks proud things,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The LORD shall root out all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things,
NET Bible
May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts!
New Heart English Bible
May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,
The Emphasized Bible
May Yahweh cut off All the lips that utter smooth things, - the tongue that speaketh swelling words;
Webster
The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
World English Bible
May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,
Youngs Literal Translation
Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,
Themes
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 12:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Oppression By The Wicked
2 They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak. 3 LORD will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaks great things, 4 who have said, With our tongue will we prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?
Names
Cross References
Daniel 7:8
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 s
Revelation 13:5
And a mouth was given to it speaking great things and blasphemy. And authority was given it to make war forty-two months.
Psalm 17:10
They are enclosed in their own fat. With their mouth they speak proudly.
Exodus 15:9
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall be satisfied upon them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
1 Samuel 2:3
Talk no more so very proudly. Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth, for LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
1 Samuel 17:43-44
And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that thou come to me with sticks? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
2 Kings 19:23-24
By thy messengers thou have defied LORD, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. And I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice f
Job 32:22
For I know not to give flattering titles, [else] my maker would soon take me away.
Psalm 73:8-9
They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression. They speak loftily.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.
Isaiah 10:10
As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images excelled those of Jerusalem and of Samaria,
Ezekiel 28:2
Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, Thus says lord LORD: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou have said, I am a god. I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas. Yet thou are man, and not God, though thou did set thy h
Ezekiel 28:9
Will thou yet say before him who slays thee, I am God? But thou are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds thee.
Ezekiel 29:3
Speak, and say, Thus says lord LORD: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lays in the midst of his rivers, that has said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.
Daniel 4:30-31
The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
Daniel 7:25
And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the sanctified of the Most High. 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.
Malachi 3:13
Your words have been stout against me, says LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?
2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering swollen things of vanity, they entice (to sensuality by lusts of flesh) those who actually escaped from those who live in error,
Jude 1:16
These are grumblers, fault-finders, going according to their lusts, and their mouth speaks overblown things, marveling personages for the sake of advantage.