Psalms 12:4
May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
5Who have said: We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own; who is Lord over us?
Cross References
Genesis 3:5For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil.
Job 21:14Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Proverbs 10:31The mouth of the just shall bring forth wisdom: the tongue of the perverse shall perish.
Jeremiah 18:18And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.
2 Thessalonians 2:4Who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were 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 →