Psalms 12
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Psalm 12
For the music leader. According to the Sheminith.#12.0 Perhaps a reference to an eight-string instrument; also in Ps 6 A psalm of David.
1Help, LORD, because the godly are all gone;
the faithful have completely disappeared
from the human race!
2Everyone tells lies to everyone else;
they talk with slick speech and divided hearts.
3Let the LORD cut off all slick-talking lips
and every tongue that brags and brags,
4that says, “We’re unbeatable with our tongues!
Who could get the best of us with lips like ours?”
5But the LORD says,
“Because the poor are oppressed,
because of the groans of the needy,
I’m now standing up.
I will provide the help they are gasping for.”#12.5 Heb uncertain
6The LORD’s promises are pure,
like silver that’s been refined in an oven,
purified seven times over!
7You, LORD, will keep us,#12.7 LXX; MT keep them
protecting us from this generation forever.
8The wicked roam all over the place,
while depravity is praised by human beings.
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Psalm 12
12
The Faithful Have Vanished
To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith.#12:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term A Psalm of David.
1Save, O Lord, for #Isa. 57:1; Mic. 7:2the godly one is gone;
for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.
2Everyone #Ps. 41:6; 144:8 utters lies to his neighbor;
with #Ps. 5:9; Jer. 9:8; Rom. 16:18 flattering lips and #1 Chr. 12:33; James 1:8a double heart they speak.
3May the Lord cut off all #[See ver. 2 above] flattering lips,
the tongue that makes #Dan. 7:8; Rev. 13:5; [Ps. 17:10]great boasts,
4those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail,
our lips are with us; who is master over us?”
5“Because #Ps. 9:12 the poor are plundered, because the needy groan,
#
Isa. 33:10; [Ps. 82:8] I will now arise,” says the Lord;
“I will place him in the #See Ps. 55:18safety for which he longs.”
6 #
Ps. 18:30; 119:140; Prov. 30:5; [Ps. 19:8] The words of the Lord are pure words,
like silver refined in a furnace on the ground,
purified seven times.
7You, O Lord, will keep them;
you will guard us#12:7 Or guard him from this generation forever.
8On every side the wicked prowl,
as vileness is exalted among the children of man.
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