Psalm 12
The Godly Are No More
1For the one directing. According to Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Help, O YHWH! For the godly one ceases to be; for the faithful ones disappear from the sons of man.
2Vanity they speak, each man with his neighbor; with lips of flattery with a double heart they speak.
3May YHWH cut off all lips of flattery, a tongue speaking great things—
4those who have said, “By our tongues we will prevail; our lips are with us; who is lord over us?”
5“From the oppression of the poor, from the groaning of the needy, now I shall arise,” says YHWH. “I will set in safety him who breathes for it.”
6The words of YHWH are pure words, silver refined in a furnace of earth, purified sevenfold.
7You, O YHWH, shall keep them; You will guard them from this generation forever.
8On every side the wicked walk, as vileness is exalted by the sons of man.