Psalms 12

The Faithful Have Vanished

To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith. ▼

▼Probably a musical or liturgical term

A Psalm of David.

1 Save, O Lord, for ^bthe godly one is gone;
for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.
2Everyone ^cutters lies to his neighbor;
with ^dflattering lips and ^ea double heart they speak.
3 May the Lord cut off all ^fflattering lips,
the tongue that makes ^ggreat boasts,
4those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail,
our lips are with us; who is master over us?”
5 “Because ^hthe poor are plundered, because the needy groan,
ⁱI will now arise,” says the Lord;
“I will place him in the ^jsafety for which he longs.”
6 ^kThe words of the Lord are pure words,
like silver refined in a furnace on the ground,
purified seven times.
7 You, O Lord, will keep them;
you will guard us ▼

▼Or  guard him

from this generation forever.
8On every side the wicked prowl,
as vileness is exalted among the children of man.

Psalms 83

O God, Do Not Keep Silence

A Song. A Psalm of ^mAsaph.

1 O God, do not keep silence;
ⁿdo not hold your peace or be still, O God!
2For behold, your enemies ^omake an uproar;
those who hate you have ^praised their heads.
3They lay ^qcrafty plans against your people;
they consult together against your ^rtreasured ones.
4They say, “Come, ^slet us wipe them out as a nation;
let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”
5For they conspire with one accord;
against you they make a covenant—
6the tents of ^tEdom and ^uthe Ishmaelites,
^vMoab and ^wthe Hagrites,
7 ^xGebal and ^yAmmon and ^zAmalek,
^aaPhilistia with the inhabitants of ^abTyre;
8 ^acAsshur also has joined them;
they are the strong arm of ^adthe children of Lot.  Selah
9 Do to them as you did to ^aeMidian,
as to ^afSisera and Jabin at ^agthe river Kishon,
10who were destroyed at ^ahEn-dor,
who became ^aidung for the ground.
11Make their nobles like ^ajOreb and Zeeb,
all their princes like ^akZebah and Zalmunna,
12who said, ^al“Let us take possession for ourselves
of the pastures of God.”
13 O my God, make them like ^amwhirling dust, ▼

▼Or  like a tumbleweed

like ^aochaff before the wind.
14As ^apfire consumes the forest,
as the flame ^aqsets the mountains ablaze,
15so may you pursue them ^arwith your tempest
and terrify them with your hurricane!
16 ^asFill their faces with shame,
that they may seek your name, O Lord.
17Let them be ^atput to shame and dismayed forever;
let them perish in disgrace,
18that they may ^auknow that you alone,
^avwhose name is the Lord,
are ^awthe Most High over all the earth.