Psalm 12, NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE
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1

Help, LORD, for the godly man ceases to be,
For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.
 

2

They speak falsehood to one another;
With flattering lips and with a double heart they speak.
 

3

May the LORD cut off all flattering lips,
The tongue that speaks great things;
 

4

Who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail;
Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?”
 

5

“Because of the devastation of the afflicted,
because of the groaning of the needy,
Now I will arise,” says the LORD;
“I will set him in the safety for which he longs.”
 

6

The words of the LORD are pure words;
As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times.
 

7

You, O LORD, will keep them;
You will preserve him from this generation forever.
 

8

The wicked strut about on every side
When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.