Psalm 12:2
Modern Translations
New International Version
Everyone lies to their neighbor; they flatter with their lips but harbor deception in their hearts.

New Living Translation
Neighbors lie to each other, speaking with flattering lips and deceitful hearts.

English Standard Version
Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

Berean Study Bible
They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.

New American Standard Bible
They speak lies to one another; They speak with flattering lips and a double heart.

NASB 1995
They speak falsehood to one another; With flattering lips and with a double heart they speak.

NASB 1977
They speak falsehood to one another; With flattering lips and with a double heart they speak.

Amplified Bible
They speak deceitful and worthless words to one another; With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

Christian Standard Bible
They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and deceptive hearts.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and deceptive hearts.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone tells lies, and no one is sincere.

Good News Translation
All of them lie to one another; they deceive each other with flattery.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
All people speak foolishly. They speak with flattering lips. They say one thing but mean another.

International Standard Version
Everyone speaks lies to his neighbor; they speak with flattering lips and hidden motives.

NET Bible
People lie to one another; they flatter and deceive.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

New King James Version
They speak idly everyone with his neighbor; With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

King James 2000 Bible
They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

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

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

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

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

A Faithful Version
They speak falsehood each one with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
They speake deceitfully euery one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips, and speake with a double heart.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Euery one vseth vayne talke with his neyghbour: and speaketh with a double heart out of flatteryng lippes.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Euery man telleth lyes to his neghbor, they do but flater with their lippes and dissemble in their herte.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
They each speak vanity with his neighbor, "" Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

Young's Literal Translation
Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

Smith's Literal Translation
They will speak vanity each with his neighbor: smooth lips, with a heart and a heart will they speak.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
They have spoken vain things every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.

Catholic Public Domain Version
They have been speaking emptiness, each one to his neighbor; they have been speaking with deceitful lips and a duplicitous heart.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
The children of men speak emptiness, and a man with his neighbor with duplicitous lips; they speak with a double heart.

Lamsa Bible
Men speak vanity, every one with his neighbour; with flattering lips, and with a double heart do they speak.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour; With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

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
















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