Psalm 12

¹Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases.

For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

²Everyone lies to his neighbor.

They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

³May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips,

and the tongue that boasts,

⁴who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail.

Our lips are our own.

Who is lord over us?”

⁵“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy,

I will now arise,” says Yahweh;

“I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

⁶Yahweh’s words are flawless words,

as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

⁷You will keep them, Yahweh.

You will preserve them from this generation forever.

⁸The wicked walk on every side,

when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.