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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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Salva, SENHOR; pois o homem piedoso desaparece. Pois os fiéis faltam dentre os filhos dos homens.
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Cada um mente ao seu próximo. Eles falam com lábios lisonjeiros, e com coração dobre.
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Que o SENHOR corte todos os lábios lisonjeiros, e a língua que se gaba,
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dos que disseram: “Com a nossa língua prevaleceremos. Nossos lábios nos pertencem. Quem é senhor sobre nós?”
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“Por causa da opressão dos fracos e por causa do gemido dos necessitados, eu me levantarei agora”, diz o SENHOR; “eu o colocarei em segurança daqueles que o difamam.”
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As palavras do SENHOR são palavras perfeitas, como prata refinada em uma fornalha de barro, purificada sete vezes.
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Tu os guardarás, SENHOR. Tu os preservarás desta geração para sempre.
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Os ímpios andam por todos os lados, quando o que é vil é exaltado entre os filhos dos homens.
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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