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Psalms 12:0-4
With flattering lips, with duplicity in their hearts they speak
Story guide: Merchants flatter a customer while a false weight tilts the scales. Intimate marketplace exchanges reveal flattery, duplicity, and the boast that speech has no master.
Open this scene in the reader →0For the choirmaster: according to The Eighth. A psalm of David.
1Save, O Yahweh, for the godly are gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the sons of man.
2They speak falsehood, each man to his neighbor; with flattering lips, with duplicity in their hearts they speak.
3May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaks great things.
4who say, “With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own—who is lord over us?”
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