Psa 12:1, Ecc 7:28, Jer 5:1, Mic 7:2, Luk 18:8, Joh 1:47 | TSK | STEP | David, destitute of human comfort, craves help of God. He comforts himself with God's promises, and his judgments on the wicked. (Title.) Sheminith. or, The eighth. Help. or, Save. godly. faithful.

Psalms 12:1

1 David, destitute of human comfort, craves help of God.

3 He comforts himself with God's promises, and his judgments on the wicked.

(Title.) Sheminith. or, The eighth.

6:1; *title

1Ch 15:21

Help. or, Save.

3:7; 6:4; 54:1; Mt 8:25; 14:30

godly.

Ge 6:12; Isa 1:9,21,22; 57:1; 63:5; Jer 5:1; Mic 7:1,2; Mt 24:12

faithful.

Pr 20:6; Isa 59:4,13-15

Ecclesiastes 7:28

yet.

23,24; Isa 26:9

one.

Job 33:23; Ps 12:1

but.Solomon, instead of seeking one rational, virtuous woman, had collected an immense multitude, of various countries and religions, for magnificence and indulgence; among whom, as might have been expected, he had not found one who was thoroughly faithful, upright, and pious. He here uses the language of a penitent, warning others of the errors into which he had been led; and not that of a wasphish satirist, lashing indiscriminately one half of the human species.

1Ki 11:1-3