Psalms
The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.
Geneva Bible 1599
Psalms 12
1To him that excelleth upon the eight tune. A Psalme of Dauid. Helpe Lord, for there is not a godly man left: for the faithfull are fayled from among the children of men. 2They speake deceitfully euery one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips, and speake with a double heart. 3The Lord cut off all flattering lippes, and the tongue that speaketh proude things: 4Which haue saide, With our tongue will we preuaile: our lippes are our owne: who is Lord ouer vs? 5Now for the oppression of the needy, and for the sighes of the poore, I will vp, sayeth the Lord, and will set at libertie him, whom the wicked hath snared. 6The wordes of the Lord are pure wordes, as the siluer, tried in a fornace of earth, fined seuen folde. 7Thou wilt keepe them, O Lord: thou wilt preserue him from this generation for euer. 8The wicked walke on euery side: when they are exalted, it is a shame for the sonnes of men.
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