Psalms 12:5
\12:4\They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
4\12:3\The smooth lips and the tongue of pride will be cut off by the Lord.
Cross References
Exodus 2:23Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.
Exodus 5:2And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, to whose voice I am to give ear and let Israel go? I have no knowledge of the Lord and I will not let Israel go.
Job 5:15But he keeps safe from their sword those who have no father, and the poor from the power of the strong.
Psalms 10:5His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.
Psalms 10:18To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.
Psalms 34:6\34:5\Let your eyes be turned to him and you will have light, and your faces will not be shamed.
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 →