King James Version
Psalms 12:4 in the King James Version says “Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? are: Heb. are with us” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 12 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? are: Heb. are with us”
Psalms 12:4 · KJV
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. a double: Heb. an heart and an heart
The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: proud: Heb. great
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? are: Heb. are with us
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. puffeth: or, would ensnare him
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
KJV Study — Public Domain
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“With our tongue”
H3956the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame,
“our lips”
H8193the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
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