1 Psalm 12 Yahweh Will Set the Needy in Safety For the choir director. According to the 12:0Possibly an eight-string instrument or a title for a tune, cf. 1 Chr 15:21 Sheminith. A Psalm of David.Save, O Yahweh, for the holy man ceases to be,For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.
2 They speak worthlessness to one another;With a flattering lip and with a double heart they speak.
3 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips,The tongue that speaks great things;
4 Who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail;Our lips are 12:4Lit with us 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 Yahweh; “I will set him in the 12:5Or salvation, cf.12:1 safety for which he 12:5Lit breathes longs.”
6 ¶The words of Yahweh are pure words;As silver tried in a furnace on the ground, refined seven times.
7 You, O Yahweh, will keep them;You will guard him from this generation forever.
8 The wicked strut about on every sideWhen 12:8Or worthlessness vileness is exalted among the sons of men.