014) Psalm 12

Psalm 12 To the chief Musician uponSheminitha psalm of David.

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1 Help Lord: for godly men do cease: faithful fail men among.

2 Each to his friend speaks vanity; with flattering lips, and tongue and with a double heart they speak.

3 All flatt’ring lips the Lord shall cut them of, with every tongue that speaketh boasting word.

4 Thus have they said, we with our tongue, prevailing pow’r shall get: are not our lips our own. for Lord who over us is set?

5 Thus saith the Lord, for sighs of them
that want, for poor opprest, I’ll now arise, from such as puff, will set him safe at rest.

6 Pure are the words the Lord doth speak: as silver that is tried in earthen furnace, seven times that hath been purified.

7 Thou shalt them keep, o Lord, thou shalt preserve them ev’ry one, For evermore in safety from this generation.

8 The wicked men on every side do walk presumptuously, when as the vilest sons of men exalted are on high.

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