Psalms - Chapter 12 | English Standard Version

  • 1. To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.
  • 2. Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
  • 3. May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,
  • 4. those who say, "With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?"
  • 5. "Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise," says the LORD; "I will place him in the safety for which he longs."
  • 6. The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.
  • 7. You, O LORD, will keep them; you will guard us from this generation forever.
  • 8. On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the children of man.
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