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
12
Human Faithlessness and God’s Faithfulness
For the music director; on the Sheminith.#Meaning uncertain A psalm of David.#The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one
1Save, O Yahweh, for the pious have ceased to be;
for the faithful have vanished
from among the children of humankind.
2They speak falseness to each other.#Literally “each with his companion”
With flattering lips,
with a double heart#Literally “a heart and a heart” they speak.
3May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips,
the tongue speaking great boasts—
4those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail.
Our lips are on our side.
Who is master over us?”
5“Because of the oppression of the afflicted,
because of the groaning of the poor,
now I will rise up,” Yahweh says.
“I shall put them in the safety for which they#Hebrew “he” long.”
6The words of Yahweh are pure words
like silver refined in the crucible on the ground,
refined seven times.
7You, O Yahweh, will protect them.
You will preserve him#Or “us”
from this generation always.
8The wicked prowl about
when vileness is exalted among the children of humankind.
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