Psalm 12, NEW KING JAMES VERSION
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1

Help, LORD, for the godly man ceases!
For the faithful disappear from amongst the sons of men.
 

2

They speak idly everyone with his neighbour;
With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
 

3

May the LORD cut off all flattering lips,
And the tongue that speaks proud things,
 

4

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

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.”
 

6

The words of the LORD are pure words,
Like silver tried in a furnace of earth,
Purified seven times.
 

7

You shall keep them, O LORD,
You shall preserve them from this generation forever.
 

8

The wicked prowl on every side,
When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.