2Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.


In Context

1 Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

2 Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

3 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

4 who have said, |With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?|

Psalm 12:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:2They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:2Everyone lies to his neighbor; their flattering lips speak with deception.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:2They have spoken vain things every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:2They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:2They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: with flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:2They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:2They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:2Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:2They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.