Psalms 12

1 to/for to conduct upon [the] Sheminith melody to/for David to save [emph?] LORD for to cease pious for to disappear faithful from son: child man

[For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David.] Help, LORD; for the faithful ceases. For the loyal have vanished from among the descendants of Adam.

2 vanity: false to speak: speak man: anyone with neighbor his lips smoothness in/on/with heart and heart to speak: speak

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

3 to cut: eliminate LORD all lips smoothness tongue to speak: speak great: large

May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

4 which to say to/for tongue our to prevail lips our with us who? lord to/for us

who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?"

5 from violence afflicted from groaning needy now to arise: rise to say LORD to set: put in/on/with salvation to breathe to/for him

"Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says the LORD; "I will place in safety the one who longs for it."

6 word LORD word pure silver: money to refine in/on/with furnace to/for land: soil to refine sevenfold

The words of the LORD are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

7 you(m. s.) LORD to keep: guard them to watch him from [the] generation this to/for forever: enduring

You, LORD, will protect us. You will guard us from this generation forever.

8 around: side wicked to go: walk [emph?] like/as to exalt vileness to/for son: child man

The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the descendants of Adam.