Psalm 12:4
“Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?”
KJV
Read in Psalm 12Meaning
The boast “our lips are our own” exposes a fantasy of speech without moral accountability or any lord above the speaker.
Boastful speech brought under divine judgment
The psalm confronts speech that exalts itself and treats words as autonomous power beyond accountability.
Read carefully
The boast “our lips are our own” exposes a fantasy of speech without moral accountability or any lord above the speaker.; Psalm 12:4 should remain within the literary movement of the psalm.
Reflection
Let this verse form truthful speech, solidarity with the vulnerable, patient trust in God, and refusal of retaliatory harm.