<h3>Psalm 12</h3><h3>For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by an eight-stringed instrument. </h3>12 <poetry>Help, O <smallCap>Lord</smallCap>, for the godly are fast disappearing! <indent>The faithful have vanished from the earth!</indent> </poetry> 2 <poetry>Neighbors lie to each other, <indent>speaking with flattering lips and deceitful hearts.</indent> </poetry> 3 <poetry>May the <smallCap>Lord</smallCap> cut off their flattering lips <indent>and silence their boastful tongues.</indent> </poetry> 4 <poetry>They say, “We will lie to our hearts’ content. <indent>Our lips are our own—who can stop us?”</indent></poetry> 5 <poetry>The <smallCap>Lord</smallCap> replies, “I have seen violence done to the helpless, <indent>and I have heard the groans of the poor.</indent> Now I will rise up to rescue them, <indent>as they have longed for me to do.”</indent> </poetry> 6 <poetry>The <smallCap>Lord</smallCap>’s promises are pure, <indent>like silver refined in a furnace,</indent> <indent>purified seven times over.</indent> </poetry> 7 <poetry>Therefore, <smallCap>Lord</smallCap>, we know you will protect the oppressed, <indent>preserving them forever from this lying generation,</indent> </poetry> 8 <poetry>even though the wicked strut about, <indent>and evil is praised throughout the land.</indent></poetry>

Psalm 12:1

For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by an eight-stringed instrument.<ft>1</ft>

Help, O <smallCap>Lord</smallCap>, for the godly are fast disappearing! <indent>The faithful have vanished from the earth!</indent>

Neighbors lie to each other, <indent>speaking with flattering lips and deceitful hearts.</indent>

Psalm 12:2

May the <smallCap>Lord</smallCap> cut off their flattering lips <indent>and silence their boastful tongues.</indent>

Psalm 12:3

They say, “We will lie to our hearts’ content. <indent>Our lips are our own—who can stop us?”</indent><pb/>

Psalm 12:4

The <smallCap>Lord</smallCap> replies, “I have seen violence done to the helpless, <indent>and I have heard the groans of the poor.</indent> Now I will rise up to rescue them, <indent>as they have longed for me to do.”</indent>

Psalm 12:5

The <smallCap>Lord</smallCap>’s promises are pure, <indent>like silver refined in a furnace,</indent> <indent>purified seven times over.</indent>

Psalm 12:6

Therefore, <smallCap>Lord</smallCap>, we know you will protect the oppressed, <indent>preserving them forever from this lying generation,</indent>

Psalm 12:7

even though the wicked strut about, <indent>and evil is praised throughout the land.</indent>

Psalm 12:8

 1 Help, O Lord, for the godly are fast disappearing! The faithful have vanished from the earth!  2 Neighbors lie to each other, speaking with flattering lips and deceitful hearts.  3 May the Lord cut off their flattering lips and silence their boastful tongues.  4 They say, “We will lie to our hearts’ content. Our lips are our own—who can stop us?”  5 The Lord replies, “I have seen violence done to the helpless, and I have heard the groans of the poor. Now I will rise up to rescue them, as they have longed for me to do.”  6 The Lord’s promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over.  7 Therefore, Lord, we know you will protect the oppressed, preserving them forever from this lying generation,  8 even though the wicked strut about, and evil is praised throughout the land.

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