Psalms 12
12
To the director: With the sheminith. A song of David.
1Save me, Lord!
We can no longer trust anyone!
All the good, loyal people are gone.
2People lie to their neighbors.
They say whatever they think people want to hear.
3The Lord should cut off their lying lips
and cut out their bragging tongues.
4Those people think they can win any argument.
They say, “We are so good with words,
no one will be our master.”
5They took advantage of the poor
and stole what little they had.
But the Lord knows what they did, and he says,
“I will rescue those who are poor and helpless,
and I will punish those who hurt them.”#12:5 I will rescue … hurt them Or “I will rescue poor, helpless people who were hurt and asked me for help.”
6The Lord’s words are true and pure,
like silver purified by fire,
like silver melted seven times to make it perfectly pure.
7Lord, take care of the helpless.
Protect them forever from the wicked people in this world.
8The wicked are all around us,
and everyone thinks evil is something to be praised!
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Psalm 12
12
A Prayer for Help against the Wicked
To the chief Musician upon Shem´inith, A Psalm of David.
1Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth;
for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
2They speak vanity every one with his neighbor:
with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
3The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips,
and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
4who have said, With our tongue will we prevail;
our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
5For 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.
6The words of the Lord are pure words:
as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7Thou shalt keep them, O Lord,
thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
8The wicked walk on every side,
when the vilest men are exalted.
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