The Psalms 12

A Prayer for Help against the Wicked

To the chief Musician upon Shem’inith, A Psalm of David.

Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth;

for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbor:

with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips,

and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

who have said, With our tongue will we prevail;

our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

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.

The words of the LORD are pure words:

as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Thou shalt keep them, O LORD,

thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

The wicked walk on every side,

when the vilest men are exalted.

Published by The American Bible Society