Psalms 12:4
Look on me, hearken to me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death;
Brenton Septuagint
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
Cross References
Genesis 3:5For God knew that in whatever day ye should eat of it your eyes would be opened, and ye would be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Job 21:14Yet such a man says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know thy ways.
Proverbs 10:31The mouth of the righteous drops wisdom: but the tongue of the unjust shall perish.
Jeremiah 18:18Then they said, Come, and let us devise a device 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 smite him with the tongue, and we will hear all his words.
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 →