King James VersionPsalms12

Psalms

1 Help, LORD; for the god­ly man ceaseth; for the faith­ful fail from among the chil­dren of men.
2 They speak van­i­ty ev­ery one with his neigh­bour: with flat­ter­ing lips and with a dou­ble heart do they speak.
3 The LORD shall cut off all flat­ter­ing lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
4 Who have said, With our tongue will we 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 will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safe­ty from him that puffeth at him.
6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as sil­ver tried in a fur­nace of earth, pu­ri­fied sev­en times.
7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt pre­serve them from this gen­er­a­tion for ev­er.
8 The wicked walk on ev­ery side, when the vilest men are ex­alt­ed.