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Psalms 12:3

May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.

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ASV

Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaketh great things;

KJV

The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
יַכְרֵ֣תyakh.Retmay he cut offH3772 →
יְ֭הוָהYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
שִׂפְתֵ֣יsif.Tei[the] lips ofH8193 →
חֲלָק֑וֹתcha.la.Kotflatteri<es>H2513 →
לָ֝שׁ֗וֹןla.Shona tongueH3956 →
מְדַבֶּ֥רֶתme.da.Be.ret[which] speaksH1696 →
גְּדֹלֽוֹת׃ge.do.Lotgreat [things]H1419 →

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Proverbs 18:21Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.Revelation 13:5The beast was given a mouth to speak arrogant and blasphemous words, and authority to act for 42 months.Daniel 7:8While I was contemplating the horns, suddenly another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like those of a man and a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.Psalms 17:10They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.Psalms 31:18May lying lips be silenced— lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.Jeremiah 23:36But refer no more to the burden of the LORD, for each man’s word becomes the burden, so that you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of Hosts, our God.Psalms 94:23He will bring upon them their own iniquity and destroy them for their wickedness. The LORD our God will destroy them.Jude 1:16These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.Daniel 7:25He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for a time, and times, and half a time.1 Samuel 17:43–44“Am I a dog,” he said to David, “that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.2 Kings 19:23–24Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.Psalms 73:8–9They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.Ezekiel 29:3Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’Exodus 15:9The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’Ezekiel 28:9Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.Daniel 4:30–31the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”1 Samuel 2:3Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.Ezekiel 28:2“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.

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