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Psalm 12
- Purpose
- To offer praise and prayer to God, to supply God’s people with texts for worship, and to provide reflection on the sovereignty of God and some of life’s toughest questions
- Author
- Various; nearly half are linked with David
- Date
- Written over the course of many centuries; the process of collecting and editing was likely completed after the Babylonian exile
- Setting
- Varied, but a postexilic setting accounts for much of the editorial activity and grouping of the psalms
Psalms has 36,194 words: about 2 hours 32 minutes to read, or 4 hours 18 minutes to listen to. Read it from the start or listen from the start.
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To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.
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Footnotes
The Godly Are No More
For the choirmaster. According to Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
1Help, O LORD, for the godly are no more;the faithful have vanished from among men. 2They lie to one another;they speak with flattering lips and a double heart. 3May the LORD cut off all flattering lipsand every boastful tongue. 4They say, “With our tongues we will prevail.We own our lips—who can be our master?”
5“For the cause of the oppressedand for the groaning of the needy,I will now arise,” says the LORD.“I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
6The words of the LORD are flawless,like silver refined in a furnace,like gold purified sevenfold.footnote a 7You, O LORD, will keep us;You will forever guard us from this generation. 8The wicked wander freely,and vileness is exalted among men.
Footnotes
- a 12:6 Probable reading; MT like silver refined in a furnace of clay, purified sevenfold
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