Old Testament

Psalms 12

Falsehood, the Poor, and God's Pure Word

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Overview

Amid a world where faithful people have vanished and deceitful speech reigns, the psalmist cries out to God, who responds with a divine oracle pledging to rise in defense of the poor, while God's word — refined like silver seven times over — stands in stark contrast to the corrupt tongue of the proud and the unresolved presence of wickedness that persists to the psalm's end.

Passages

1–2The Collapse of Fidelity: A Cry from the Remnant 3–4The Tongue That Usurps God 5God's Response: The Divine Oracle on Behalf of the Poor 6The Purity of God's Word 7–8The Faithful Few and the Faithful God: Divine Keeping Amid a World of Wickedness

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Psalms 12

¹For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David. Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

²Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

³May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

⁴who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”

⁵“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

⁶Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

⁷You will keep them, Yahweh. You will preserve them from this generation forever.

⁸The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.

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