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Psalm 12 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by an eight-stringed instrument.[fn]

Help, O LORD, for the godly are fast disappearing!
The faithful have vanished from the earth!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:2 - Neighbors lie to each other,
speaking with flattering lips and deceitful hearts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:3 - May the LORD cut off their flattering lips
and silence their boastful tongues.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:4 - They say, “We will lie to our hearts’ content.
Our lips are our own—who can stop us?”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:5 - The LORD replies, “I have seen violence done to the helpless,
and I have heard the groans of the poor.
Now I will rise up to rescue them,
as they have longed for me to do.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:6 - The LORD’s promises are pure,
like silver refined in a furnace,
purified seven times over.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:7 - Therefore, LORD, we know you will protect the oppressed,
preserving them forever from this lying generation,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:8 - even though the wicked strut about,
and evil is praised throughout the land.
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Hebrew according to the sheminith.
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