Psalms 12 (DRB)

Chapter Text

12:1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? how long dost thou turn away thy face from me?

12:2 How long shall I take counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart all the day?

12:3 How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

12:4 Consider, and hear me, O Lord, my God. Enlighten my eyes, that I never sleep in death:

12:5 Lest at any time my enemy say: I have prevailed against him. They that trouble me, will rejoice when I am moved:

12:6 But I have trusted in thy mercy. My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation: I will sing to the Lord, who giveth me good things: yea, I will sing to the name of the Lord, the most high.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "light", "mercy", "psalm", "david", "long", "lord", "wilt", and "thou". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "light" and "mercy", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The local DRB text gives this verse as the immediate unit, so "light" and "mercy" carries the first interpretive weight. In The LORD as Shepherd, the local focus is trust, covenant mercy, guidance, and worship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "light" and "mercy" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.