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Salmos 12:4
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Concordances:
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- InternationalParallel Translations
a los que han dicho: Con nuestra lengua prevaleceremos, nuestros labios nos defienden; ¿quién es señor sobre nosotros?
Que dijeron: Por nuestra lengua prevaleceremos; Nuestros labios estn con nosotros: quin nos es seor?
los que han dicho: Por nuestra lengua prevaleceremos; nuestros labios son nuestros; quin es seor sobre nosotros?
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
With: Jeremiah 18:18, James 3:5, James 3:6
our own: Heb. with us
who: Genesis 3:5, Exodus 5:2, Job 21:14, Job 21:15, Jeremiah 2:31, Daniel 3:15, 2 Thessalonians 2:4
Reciprocal: Judges 17:6 - right Judges 21:25 - right Psalms 17:10 - with Psalms 39:1 - that I Psalms 73:8 - speak wickedly Psalms 100:3 - not we ourselves Psalms 140:11 - an evil speaker Isaiah 36:18 - lest Jeremiah 17:14 - Heal Jeremiah 44:17 - whatsoever Hosea 7:16 - the rage Romans 3:13 - with their 1 Corinthians 6:19 - and ye 2 Peter 2:10 - despise
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Who have said, with our tongue will we prevail,.... Either through the eloquence of them, or the outward force and power with which they are backed. The sense is, as we say, so shall it be; our words are laws, and shall be obeyed, there is no standing against them; our edicts and decrees shall everywhere be regarded: or "we will make one to prevail", or "have the dominion" g; meaning antichrist, the man of sin; for all this is true of the tongues of the antichristian party, and of their laws, edicts, and decrees and which have obtained everywhere, and by which the wicked one has been established in his tyrannical power and authority;
our lips [are] our own, or "with us" h: we will say what we please, and make what laws and decrees we think fit, and impose them upon men; and so change times and laws without control, Daniel 7:25;
who [is] Lord over us? which is the very language and conduct of antichrist, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, 2 Thessalonians 2:4; and is indeed the language of the hearts and lives of all wicked and ungodly men, sons of Belial, men without any yoke or restraint; who walk, and are resolved to walk, after the imagination of their own evil hearts; not knowing the Lord, and being unwilling to obey him, or to be restrained by him; see Exodus 5:2.
g נגביר "prevalere ac dominare, faciemus, scil. aliquem regem, dominum", Cocceius. h אתנו "nobiscum", Musculus, Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis; so Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Ainsworth.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Who have said - Who habitually say. This does not mean that they had formally and openly said this - for none would be likely to do so - but that they had practically and really said this by their conduct. They acted as if it were the real principle on which they framed their lives, that they might use their tongues as they pleased.
With our tongue - literally, “as to,” or “in respect to our tongue;” that is, by our tongue. It was by the tongue that they expected to accomplish their purposes. It was not by direct power, or by violence, but by the power of speech.
Will we prevail - literally, “We will do mightily;” that is, they would accomplish their purposes. They relied on the power of speech - on their ability in influencing others; in deceiving others; in persuading others to fall in with their plans.
Our lips are our own - That is, we may use them as we please; no one has a right to control us in the use of what properly belongs to ourselves. It cannot be meant that they intended to assert this openly as a right, for there are perhaps none who will not admit in words that they are responsible for what they “say,” as well as for what they “do.” But their conduct was such that this was the fair interpretation to be placed on what they said. They would speak this if they openly professed and avowed what was their real opinion.
Who is lord over us? - That is, who has a right to control us in the case? There are many who practically avow this as a principle of conduct, and who seem to feel that they are not responsible for their words, however much they may admit their responsibility for their actions. There is usually a greater degree of recklessness among men in regard to their speech than in regard to their conduct; and many a man who would shrink from doing another wrong by an act of dishonesty in business, may be utterly reckless as to doing him wrong by an unkind remark.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 12:4. Our lips are our own — Many think, because they have the faculty of speaking, that therefore they may speak what they please.
Old MS. - The qwilk sayd, our toung we sal wyrchip, our lippes er of us, qwas our Lorde? Tha Ypocrites worchepes thair toung; for thai hee tham self janglyng and settes in thaire pouste to do mykil thyng and grete: and thai rose tham that thair lippes that es thair facund and thair wyls er of tham self, nought of God, ne of haly menes lare; for thi that say qua es our Lord? that es, qwat es he to qwas rewle and conversacioun we sal be undir lout? and confourme us til? Als so to say, That es none.
