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Psalm 12

Proud Words vs. Pure Words

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For the choir director. According to sheminith.[a] A psalm by David.

The Proud Words of the Ungodly

Save us, Lord, for the merciful have disappeared.
The faithful have vanished from among mankind.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 12:1 Sheminith is apparently derived from the Hebrew word for eight. It may refer to an eight-stringed instrument, to the bass voice, to low-pitched stringed instruments, or, most likely, to a method for tuning a stringed instrument (1 Chronicles 15:21).

To the chief Musician. Upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

12 Save, Jehovah, for the godly man is gone; for the faithful have failed from among the children of men.

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