Psalms 12:4
who have said, With our tongue will we prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
In Context
3LORD will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaks great things,
Cross References
Genesis 3:5For God knows that in the day ye eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Job 21:14And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.
Proverbs 10:31The mouth of a righteous man brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut off.
Jeremiah 18:18Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah. For the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not gi
2 Thessalonians 2:4who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or an object of worship, so as for him to sit in the temple of God, as God, displaying himself that he is God.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 12:2-8
Complaints of the Times. 1 Help, Lord ; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. 3 The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: 4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? 5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord ; I will… Read the whole commentary →