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Psalms 12

Man’s Treachery and God’s Constancy

¹Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.

²They speak idly everyone with his neighbor; With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

³May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, And the tongue that speaks proud things,

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

⁵“For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, Now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will set him in the safety for which he yearns.”

⁶The words of the Lord are pure words, Like silver tried in a furnace of earth, Purified seven times.

⁷You shall keep them, O Lord, You shall preserve them from this generation forever.

⁸The wicked prowl on every side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

Psalms 12 (NKJV)

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