Psalm 12:3 {11:4}
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May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things.

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Job 32:22 For I know not how long I shall continue, and whether after a while my Maker may take me away.

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Psalm 17:10 They have shut up their fat: their mouth hath spoken proudly.

Psalm 73:8,9 They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high. . . .

Exodus 15:9 The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay them.

1 Samuel 2:3 Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boasting: let old matters depart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to him are thoughts prepared.

1 Samuel 17:43,44 And the Philistine said to David: Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with a staff? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. . . .

2 Kings 19:23,24 By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said: With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the top of Libanus, and have cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees. And I have entered into the furthest parts thereof, and the forest of its Carmel. . . .

Isaiah 10:10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idol, so also their idols of Jerusalem, and of Samaria.

Ezekiel 28:2,9 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am God, and I sit in the chair of God in the heart of the sea: whereas thou art a man, and not God: and hast set thy heart as if it were the heart of God. . . .

Ezekiel 29:3 Speak, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against thee, Pharao king of Egypt, thou great dragon that liest in the midst of thy rivers, and sayest: The river is mine, and I made myself.

Daniel 4:30,31 The same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor, and he was driven away from among men, and did eat grass, like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles, and his nails like birds' claws. . . .

Daniel 7:8,25 I considered the horns, and behold another little horn sprung out of the midst of them: and three of the first horns were plucked up at the presence thereof: and behold eyes like the eyes of a man were in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things. . . .

Malachi 3:13 Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord.

2 Peter 2:18 For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error:

Jude 1:16 These are murmurers, full of complaints, walking according to their own desires: and their mouth speaketh proud things, admiring persons, for gain's sake.

Revelation 13:5 And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies: and power was given to him to do, two and forty months.

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Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: they that love it, shall eat the fruits thereof.

Context
The Godly are No More
2They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken. 3May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things.4Who have said: We will magnify our tongue: our lips are our own: who is Lord over us?…
Cross References
James 3:5
Even so the tongue is indeed a little member and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood.

Revelation 13:5
And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies: and power was given to him to do, two and forty months.

Daniel 7:8
I considered the horns, and behold another little horn sprung out of the midst of them: and three of the first horns were plucked up at the presence thereof: and behold eyes like the eyes of a man were in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.

Hosea 7:16
They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt.

Lexicon
May the LORD
יְ֭הוָה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

cut off
יַכְרֵ֣ת (yaḵ·rêṯ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3772: To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

flattering
חֲלָק֑וֹת (ḥă·lā·qō·wṯ)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2513: Smoothness, flattery, an allotment

lips,
שִׂפְתֵ֣י (śip̄·ṯê)
Noun - fdc
Strong's Hebrew 8193: The lip, language, a margin

and the tongue
לָ֝שׁ֗וֹן (lā·šō·wn)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3956: The tongue

that speaks
מְדַבֶּ֥רֶת (mə·ḏab·be·reṯ)
Verb - Piel - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

proud things.
גְּדֹלֽוֹת׃ (gə·ḏō·lō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1419: Great, older, insolent


Additional Translations
May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things.The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things:

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

Let the Lord destroy all the deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaks great words:

Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh proud things,

The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh great things:

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

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

Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,
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