Psalm 12

PSALM 12

Yahweh Will Set the Needy in Safety

For the choir director. According to the ^†Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

¹Save, O Yahweh, for ^athe holy man ceases to be,

For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.

²They ^aspeak worthlessness to one another;

With a ^bflattering lip and with a double heart they speak.

³May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips,

The tongue that ^aspeaks great things;

⁴Who ^ahave said, “With our tongue we will prevail;

Our lips are ¹our own; who is lord over us?”

⁵“Because of the ^adevastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,

Now ^bI will arise,” says Yahweh; “I will ^cset him in the ¹safety for which he ²longs.”

⁶The ^awords of Yahweh are pure words;

As silver ^btried in a furnace on the ground, refined seven times.

⁷You, O Yahweh, will keep them;

You will ^aguard him from this generation forever.

⁸The ^awicked strut about on every side

When ^1bvileness is exalted among the sons of men.