Everyone lies to his neighbor.
They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Psalms 12:2 in context
Psalms 12:1–5
1
Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases.
For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
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Everyone lies to his neighbor.
They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
3
May the LORD cut off all flattering lips,
and the tongue that boasts,
4
who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail.
Our lips are our own.
Who is lord over us?”
5
“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy,
I will now arise,” says the LORD;
“I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
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