the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Psalms 12:2
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Neighbors lie to each other, speaking with flattering lips and deceitful hearts.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.
They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak.
Everyone lies to his neighbors; they say one thing and mean another.
People lie to one another; they flatter and deceive.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: [with] flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.
Everyone lies to his neighbor. With flattering lips, and with a double heart, do they speak.
They speak deceitful and worthless words to one another; With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
Thei spaken veyn thingis, ech man to hys neiybore; thei han gileful lippis, thei spaken in herte and herte.
They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
Everyone tells lies, and no one is sincere.
They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.
Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.
Help, Adonai ! For no one godly is left; the faithful have vanished from humankind.
They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak.
People lie to their neighbors. They say whatever they think people want to hear.
Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
They speake vanitie euery one with his neighbour: with flattering lips, and with a double heart do they speake.
They lie to each other. Their lips speak with sweet-sounding words that are not true.
They utter lies to each other; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
They speake deceitfully euery one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips, and speake with a double heart.
Men speak vanity, every one with his neighbour; with flattering lips, and with a double heart do they speak.
All of them lie to one another; they deceive each other with flattery.
Deception, speak they, every one with his neighbour, - with lips uttering smooth things - with a heart and a heart, do they speak.
(11-3) They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.
Every one utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
Euery one vseth vayne talke with his neyghbour: and speaketh with a double heart out of flatteryng lippes.
Every one has spoken vanity to his neighbour: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart.
They lie to one another;they speak with flattering lips and deceptive hearts.
Everyone lies to his neighbor. With flattering lips, and with a double heart, do they speak.
They speak falseness to each other. With flattering lips, with a double heart they speak.
They speak vanity, each man with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.
Euery man telleth lyes to his neghbor, they do but flater with their lippes and dissemble in their herte.
They speak lies to one another; They speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
They speak idly everyone with his neighbor; With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
They speak falsehood to one another; With flattering lips and with a double heart they speak.
They speak worthlessness to one another;With a flattering lip and with a double heart they speak.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
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They: Psalms 10:7, Psalms 36:3, Psalms 36:4, Psalms 38:12, Psalms 41:6, Psalms 52:1-4, Psalms 59:12, Psalms 144:8, Psalms 144:11, Jeremiah 9:2-6, Jeremiah 9:8
flattering: Psalms 5:9, Psalms 28:3, Psalms 62:4, Proverbs 20:19, Proverbs 29:5, Ezekiel 12:24, Romans 16:18, 1 Thessalonians 2:5
a double heart: Heb. an heart and an heart, 1 Chronicles 12:33, *marg. James 1:8
Reciprocal: Genesis 29:19 - General Genesis 34:13 - deceitfully Judges 8:18 - As thou art Judges 16:6 - General 1 Samuel 18:17 - her will I give 2 Samuel 11:8 - there followed him 2 Samuel 13:24 - let the king 2 Samuel 15:3 - thy matters 1 Kings 22:30 - and enter into the battle 1 Chronicles 12:17 - If ye be come 2 Chronicles 18:29 - put thou on thy robes Nehemiah 6:2 - they thought Nehemiah 6:10 - Let us meet Job 17:5 - He that Job 31:5 - walked Job 32:22 - I know not Psalms 50:19 - tongue Psalms 60:4 - because Proverbs 7:21 - With her Proverbs 10:18 - that hideth Proverbs 12:5 - counsels Proverbs 23:7 - Eat Proverbs 26:25 - speaketh fair Isaiah 58:9 - speaking Isaiah 59:15 - truth Jeremiah 9:4 - ye heed Jeremiah 12:6 - though Daniel 11:27 - shall be to Habakkuk 1:3 - General Matthew 2:8 - that Matthew 15:11 - but Matthew 22:16 - we know Mark 12:14 - Master Luke 6:45 - and an Luke 20:21 - Master Acts 12:22 - General Acts 23:20 - as Acts 24:2 - Seeing 1 Timothy 3:8 - doubletongued James 3:5 - so
Cross-References
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord , and called upon the name of the Lord .
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
Gill's Notes on the Bible
They speak vanity everyone with his neighbour,.... That which is false and a lie, either doctrinal or practical; what was not according to the word of God, and was vain and empty, frothy, filthy, and corrupt; and which no godly and faithful man would do. And this being done in common, by the generality of men, one with another, shows the degeneracy of the age, and supports the complaint before made. They speak even
[with] flattering lips; as Cain did to Abel, Joab to Amasa, the Herodians to Christ, Judas to his Master, false teachers to those that are simple, hypocrites to God himself, when they draw nigh to him only with their lips, and all formal professors to the churches of Christ, when they profess themselves to be what they are not. And this is a further proof of the justness of the above complaint;
[and] with a double heart do they speak: or "with an heart and an heart" d; such are double minded men, who say one thing, and mean another; their words are not to be depended upon; there is no faithfulness in them. The Chinese e reckon a man of "two hearts", as they call him, a very wicked man, and none more remote from honesty.
d בלב ולב "in corde & corde", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Gejerus. e Martin. Sinic. Hist. p. 144. a heart having διχομυθον νοημα, a double meaning, as Pittacus says, Laert. in Vit. Pittac. l. 1. p. 53.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They speak vanity - This is a statement of the “manner” in which the “godly” and the “faithful” fail, as stated in Psalms 12:1. One of the ways was that there was a disregard of truth; that no confidence could be placed on the statements of those who professed to be pious; that they dealt falsely with their neighbors. The word “vanity” here is equivalent to “falsehood.” What they spoke was a vain and empty thing, instead of being the truth. It had no reality, and could not be depended on.
Every one with his neighbour - In his statements and promises. No reliance could be placed on his word.
With flattering lips - Hebrew, “Lips of smoothness.” The verb from which the word used here is derived - חלק chālaq - means properly to divide, to distribute; then, to make things equal or smooth; then, to make smooth or to shape, as an artisan does, as with a plane; and then, “to make things smooth with the tongue,” that is, “to flatter.” See Psalms 5:9; Proverbs 5:3; Proverbs 26:28; Proverbs 28:23; Proverbs 29:5. The meaning is, that no confidence could be placed in the statements made. There was no certainty that they were founded on truth; none that they were not intended to deceive. Flattery is the ascribing of qualities to another which he is known not to possess - usually with some sinister or base design.
And with a double heart - Margin, as in Hebrew, “a heart and a heart;” that is, as it were, with two hearts, one that gives utterance to the words, and the other that retains a different sentiment. Thus, in Deuteronomy 25:13, the phrase in Hebrew, “a stone and a stone” means, as it is translated, “divers weights” - one stone or weight to buy with, and another to sell with. So the flatterer. He has one heart to give utterance to the words which he uses toward his neighbor, and another that conceals his real purpose or design. No confidence, therefore, could be placed in such persons. Compare the note at Job 32:22.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 12:2. They speak vanity every one with his neighbour — They are false and hollow; they say one thing while they mean another; there is no trusting to what they say.
Flattering lips, and with a double heart do they speak — בלב ולב beleb valeb, "With a heart and a heart." They seem to have two hearts; one to speak fair words, and the other to invent mischief. The old MS. both translates and paraphrases curiously.
Trans. Dayn spak ilkan til his neghbur: swykil lippis in hert, and thurgh hert thai spak.
Par. - Sothfastnes es lessed, and falsed waxes: and al sa vayn spak ilkone to bygyle his neghbur: and many spendes thair tyme in vayne speche withoutyn profyte and gastely frute. And that er swyku lippis; that er jangelers berkand ogaynes sothfastnes. And swykel, for thai speke in hert and thurgh hert; that es in dubil hert, qwen a fals man thynkes ane, and sais another, to desaif hym that he spekes with.
This homely comment cannot be mended.
