« | Psalm 12 | » |
1 Help us, LORD! There is not a good person left; honest people can no longer be found.
2 All of them lie to one another; they deceive each other with flattery.
3 Silence those flattering tongues, O LORD! Close those boastful mouths that say,
4 "With our words we get what we want. We will say what we wish, and no one can stop us."
5 "But now I will come," says the LORD, "because the needy are oppressed and the persecuted groan in pain. I will give them the security they long for."
6 The promises of the LORD can be trusted; they are as genuine as silver refined seven times in the furnace.
7 The wicked are everywhere, and everyone praises what is evil. Keep us always safe, O LORD, and preserve us from such people.
8 (SEE 12:7)
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