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Psalms 12
A lament about words that lie. The complaint is that the faithful are vanishing and everyone now 'speaks with flattering lips, and with a double heart' (v.1-2). The boast of the age is verbal power: 'With our tongue we will prevail' (v.4). At the center God breaks his silence to answer — 'I will now arise' for the oppressed and the needy who groan (v.5). The poem then sets human speech against divine speech, and weighs which one will last.
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Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
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Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
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May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,
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who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”
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“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
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The LORD’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
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You will keep them, LORD. You will preserve them from this generation forever.
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The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.
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Al Músico principal: sobre Seminith: Salmo de David. SALVA, oh Jehová, porque se acabaron los misericordiosos: porque se han acabado los fieles de entre los hijos de los hombres.
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Mentira habla cada uno con su prójimo; con labios lisonjeros, con corazón doble hablan.
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Destruirá Jehová todos los labios lisonjeros, la lengua que habla grandezas;
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Que dijeron: Por nuestra lengua prevaleceremos; nuestros labios están con nosotros: ¿quién nos es señor?
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Por la opresión de los pobres, por el gemido de los menesterosos, ahora me levantaré, dice Jehová: pondrélos en salvo del que contra ellos se engríe.
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Las palabras de Jehová, palabras limpias; plata refinada en horno de tierra, purificada siete veces.
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Tú, Jehová, los guardarás; guárdalos para siempre de aquesta generación.
- 8
Cercando andan los malos, mientras son exaltados los más viles de los hijos de los hombres.
Two kinds of speech, refined and forged
Against the doubled, boasting tongue of v.2-4, v.6 holds up the LORD's words as 'silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times' — speech with no impurity left.
That image carries the promise of v.7: words this pure can be trusted to 'preserve them forever,' even while what is vile is exalted among men (v.8).
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