Psalms 12 (LSB)

Chapter Text

12:1 For the choir director. According to the Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Save, O Yahweh, for the holy man ceases to be, For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.

12:2 They speak worthlessness to one another; With a flattering lip and with a double heart they speak.

12:3 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaks great things;

12:4 Who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail; Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?”

12:5 “Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy, Now I will arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in the safety for which he longs.”

12:6 The words of Yahweh are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the ground, refined seven times.

12:7 You, O Yahweh, will keep them; You will guard him from this generation forever.

12:8 The wicked strut about on every side When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "faith", "choir", "director", "sheminith", "psalm", "david", "save", and "yahweh". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "faith" and "choir", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The local LSB text gives this verse as the immediate unit, so "faith" and "choir" 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 "faith" and "choir" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.