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title: Psalm 12
slug: kjv/psalm-12
createdAt: 2024-08-21T01:29:38.537Z
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**1 **\{To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.} 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.