Plea for Help in Evil Times: Psalm 12

Help, O LORD, for there is no longer anyone who is godly; the faithful have disappeared from humankind.

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Hebrew

Plea for Help in Evil Times

To the leader: according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

1 Help, O LORD, for there is no longer anyone who is godly;

the faithful have disappeared from humankind.

2 They utter lies to each other;

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 tongues we will prevail;

our lips are our own—who is our master?”

5 “Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan,

I will now rise up,” says the LORD;

“I will place them in the safety for which they long.”

6 The promises of the LORD are promises that are pure,

silver refined in a furnace on the ground,

purified seven times.

7 You, O LORD, will protect us;

you will guard us from this generation forever.

8 On every side the wicked prowl,

as vileness is exalted among humankind.

1. New Revised Standard Version

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