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Psalm 12:2

World English Bible

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

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Psalm 12:2 in other translations

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

Psalm 12:2 · American Standard Version

Psalm 12:2 in context

  1. 1Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases.
    For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
  2. 2Everyone lies to his neighbor.
    They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
  3. 3May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips,
    and the tongue that boasts,
  4. 4who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail.
    Our lips are our own.
    Who is lord over us?”