Psalms 12
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PSALM 12
Common Meter: 8,6,8,6
To the chief Musician upon Sheminith,
A Psalm of David.
1Help, Lord, because the godly man
doth daily fade away;
And from among the sons of men
the faithful do decay.
2Unto his neighbour ev'ry one
doth utter vanity:
They with a double heart do speak,
and lips of flattery.
3God shall cut off all flatt'ring lips,
tongues that speak proudly thus,
4We'll with our tongue prevail, our lips
are ours: who's lord o'er us?
5For poor oppress'd,
and for the sighs of needy, rise will
I, Saith God, and him in safety set
from such as him defy.
6The words of God are words most pure;
they be like silver try'd
In earthen furnace, seven times
that hath been purify'd.
7Lord, thou shalt them preserve and keep
for ever from this race.
8On each side walk the wicked, when
vile men are high in place.
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Psalms 12
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For the music director. To the Sheminith. A psalm of David.
1Help, Lord, for all the good people have gone! Those who trust in you have disappeared from among the people on earth.
2Everyone lies to their neighbors. They flatter with nice talk, but they don't mean what they say.#12:2. Literally, they have “double hearts.”
3Stop their flattery, Lord, and silence their boasts—
4these people who say, “We will succeed through what we say; our mouths belong to us. We don't take orders from anyone!”
5“Because of the violence the helpless have suffered, and because of the groans of the poor, I will rise up to defend them,” says the Lord. “I will give them the protection they have been longing for.”
6What the Lord says is trustworthy, as pure as silver refined seven times in a furnace.
7You, Lord will keep the oppressed safe; you will protect us from these kinds of people forever;
8even though the wicked are all around us, and evil is being promoted everywhere.#12:8. “Everywhere”: literally, “among the offspring of humankind.”
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