Psalm 12 - 14

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Yahweh Will Set the Needy in Safety

For the choir director. According to the Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

Save, O Yahweh, for the holy man ceases to be,

For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.

They speak worthlessness to one another;

With a flattering lip and with a double heart they speak.

May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips,

The tongue that speaks great things;

Who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail;

Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?”

“Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,

Now I will arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in the safety for which he longs.”

The words of Yahweh are pure words;

As silver tried in a furnace on the ground, refined seven times.

You, O Yahweh, will keep them;

You will guard him from this generation forever.

The wicked strut about on every side

When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

How Long, O Yahweh?

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.

How long, O Yahweh? Will You forget me forever?

How long will You hide Your face from me?

How long shall I take counsel in my soul,

Having sorrow in my heart all the day?

How long will my enemy be exalted over me?

Look and answer me, O Yahweh my God;

Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,

Lest my enemy says, “I have overcome him,”

And my adversaries rejoice that I am shaken.

But I have trusted in Your lovingkindness;

My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.

I will sing to Yahweh,

Because He has dealt bountifully with me.

There Is No One Who Does Good

For the choir director. Of David.

The wicked fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”

They act corruptly, they commit abominable deeds;

There is no one who does good.

Yahweh looks down from heaven upon the sons of men

To see if there is anyone who has insight,

Anyone who seeks after God.

They have all turned aside, altogether they have become worthless;

There is no one who does good, not even one.

Do all the workers of iniquity not know,

Who eat up my people as they eat bread,

And do not call upon Yahweh?

There they are in great dread,

For God is with the righteous generation.

You would put to shame the counsel of the afflicted,

But Yahweh is his refuge.

Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!

When Yahweh restores His captive people,

May Jacob rejoice, may Israel be glad.

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