Psalm 12:2 {11:3}
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They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.

They

Psalm 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit: under his tongue are labor and sorrow.

Psalm 36:3,4 The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: he would not understand that he might do well. . . .

Psalm 38:12 And they that sought my soul used violence. And they that sought evils to me spoke vain things, and studied deceits all the day long.

Psalm 41:6 And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose.

Psalm 52:1-4 Unto the end, understanding for David, [2] When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul: David went to the house of Achimelech. [3] Why dost thou glory in malice, thou that art mighty in iniquity? . . .

Psalm 59:12 For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride. And for their cursing and lying they shall be talked of,

Psalm 144:8,11 Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity. . . .

Jeremiah 9:2-6,8 Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors. . . .

flattering

Psalm 5:9 For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.

Psalm 28:3 Draw me not away together with the wicked; and with the workers of iniquity destroy me not: Who speak peace with their neighbour, but evils are in their hearts.

Psalm 62:4 But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart.

Proverbs 20:19 Meddle not with him that revealeth secrets, and walketh deceitfully, and openeth wide his lips.

Proverbs 29:5 A man that speaketh to his friend with flattering and dissembling words, spreadeth a net for his feet.

Ezekiel 12:24 For there shall be no more any vain visions, nor doubtful divination in the midst of the children of Israel.

Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not Christ our Lord but their own belly: and by pleasing speeches and good words seduce the hearts of the innocent.

1 Thessalonians 2:5 For neither have we used at any time the speech of flattery, as you know: nor taken an occasion of covetousness (God is witness):

a double heart.

1 Chronicles 12:33 And of Zabulon such as went forth to battle, and stood in array well appointed with armour for war, there came fifty thousand to his aid, with no double heart.

James 1:8 A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways.

Context
The Godly are No More
1Unto the end: for the octave, a psalm for David. [2] Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: truths are decayed from among the children of men. 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.…
Cross References
Romans 16:18
For they that are such serve not Christ our Lord but their own belly: and by pleasing speeches and good words seduce the hearts of the innocent.

1 Chronicles 12:33
And of Zabulon such as went forth to battle, and stood in array well appointed with armour for war, there came fifty thousand to his aid, with no double heart.

Psalm 4:2
O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull of heart? why do you love vanity, and seek after lying?

Psalm 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit: under his tongue are labor and sorrow.

Psalm 28:3
Draw me not away together with the wicked; and with the workers of iniquity destroy me not: Who speak peace with their neighbour, but evils are in their hearts.

Psalm 36:3
The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: he would not understand that he might do well.

Psalm 41:6
And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose.

Psalm 55:21
They are divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart hath drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and the same are darts.

Psalm 144:8
Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.

Psalm 144:11
Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:

Proverbs 27:14
He that blesseth his neighbour with a loud voice, rising in the night, shall be like to him that curseth.

Isaiah 58:9
Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall hear: thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou wilt take away the chain out of the midst of thee, and cease to stretch out the finger, and to speak that which profiteth not.

Jeremiah 9:4
Let every man take heed of his neighbour, and let him not trust in any brother of his: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every friend will walk deceitfully.

Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongue is a piercing arrow, it hath spoken deceit: with his mouth one speaketh peace with his friend, and secretly he lieth in wait for him.

Jeremiah 12:6
For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have fought against thee, and have cried after thee with full voice: believe them not when they speak good things to thee.

Daniel 11:27
And the heart of the two kings shall be to do evil, and they shall speak lies at one table, and they shall not prosper: because as yet the end is unto another time.

Lexicon
They lie
שָׁ֤וְא ׀ (šāw)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7723: Evil, idolatry, uselessness

to
אֶת־ (’eṯ-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among

one
אִ֤ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

another;
רֵ֫עֵ֥הוּ (rê·‘ê·hū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7453: Friend, companion, fellow

they speak
יְדַבֵּֽרוּ׃ (yə·ḏab·bê·rū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

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

lips
שְׂפַ֥ת (śə·p̄aṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8193: The lip, language, a margin

and a double
בְּלֵ֖ב (bə·lêḇ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

heart.
וָלֵ֣ב (wā·lêḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre


Additional Translations
They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

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

Every one has spoken vanity to his neighbour: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart.

They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

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

Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.
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