Psalms 12:4
who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”
World English Bible Classic
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
3May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,
Cross References
Genesis 3:5for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Job 21:14They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
Proverbs 10:31The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
Jeremiah 18:18Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”
2 Thessalonians 2:4He opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as 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 →