Psalms 12:4
(12:5) Who have said, With our tongue will we be mighty; our lips are with us; who is Lord over us!
Leeser Tanakh
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
3(12:4) May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh boastful things:
Cross References
Genesis 3:5For God doth know, that, on the day ye eat thereof, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be as God, knowing good and evil.
Job 21:14And yet they say unto God, “Depart from us; and the knowledge of thy ways we desire not.
Proverbs 10:31The mouth of the just uttereth wisdom; but the tongue of perverseness shall be cut out.
Jeremiah 18:18And they said, Come, and let us contrive devices against Jeremiah; for the law will not be lost 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 listen to any of 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 →