AB - Psalms - 12

12:1  Save me, O Lord; for the godly man has failed; for truth is diminished from among the children of men.

12:2  Everyone has spoken vanity to his neighbor: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart.

12:3  Let the Lord destroy all the deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaks great words;

12:4  who have said, We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own: who is Lord of us?

12:5  Because of the misery of the poor, and because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the Lord, I will set them in safety; I will speak to them openly.

12:6  The oracles of the Lord are pure oracles; as silver tried in the fire, proved in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

12:7  You, O Lord, shall keep us, and shall preserve us, from this generation, and forever.

12:8  The ungodly walk around; according to Your greatness You have greatly exalted the sons of men.