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Mazmur 12:2
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(12-3) Mereka berkata dusta, yang seorang kepada yang lain, mereka berkata dengan bibir yang manis dan hati yang bercabang.
Tolong apalah, ya Tuhan! karena kuranglah orang yang saleh dan orang yang setiawanpun telah hilang dari antara segala anak Adam.
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Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
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
I wyll also blesse them that blesse thee, and curse the that curseth thee: and in thee shall all kinredes of the earth be blessed.
And so Abram departed, euen as the Lorde had spoken vnto hym, and Lot went with him: and Abram was seuentie and fiue yeres old when he departed out of Haran.
Abram passed through the lande, vnto the place of Sichem, vnto the plaine of Moreh. And the Chanaanite [was] then in the lande.
And remouyng thence vnto a mountayne that was eastwarde from Bethel, he pitched his tent, hauyng Bethel on the west syde, & Hai on the east: and there he buyldyng an aulter vnto the Lorde, dyd call vpon the name of the Lorde.
And Abram toke his iourney, goyng and iourneying towarde the south.
[And] the there was a famine in that lande, and therfore went Abram downe into Egypt, that he myght soiourne there, for there was a greeuons famine in the lande.
And so when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians behelde the woman, for she was very fayre.
And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheepe and oxen, and he asses, menseruauntes, & maydeseruauntes, she asses and camelles.
But the Lorde plagued Pharao and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai Abrams wyfe.
And Pharao callyng Abram, sayde: why hast thou done this vnto me?
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.
