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Psalm 12 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Man’s Treachery and God’s Constancy
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:1 - To the Chief Musician. On an eight-stringed harp.[fn] A Psalm of David.

Help, LORD, for the godly man ceases!
For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:2 - They speak idly everyone with his neighbor;
With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:3 - May the LORD cut off all flattering lips,
And the tongue that speaks proud things,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:4 - Who have said,
“With our tongue we will prevail;
Our lips are our own;
Who is lord over us?”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:5 - “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.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:6 - The words of the LORD are pure words,
Like silver tried in a furnace of earth,
Purified seven times.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:7 - You shall keep them, O LORD,
You shall preserve them from this generation forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:8 - The wicked prowl on every side,
When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.
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Hebrew sheminith
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