詩篇 12

1 ああヱホバよ助けたまへ そは神をうやまふ人はたえ誠あるものは人の子のなかより消失るなり

Help, Jehovah, for the holy man ceases, for the faithful fail from among the sons of men.

2 人はみな虚偽をもてその隣とあひかたり滑なるくちびると貳心とをもてものいふ

They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak.

3 ヱホバはすべての滑なるくちびると大なる言をかたる舌とをほろぼし給はん

Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaks great things,

4 かれらはいふ われら舌をもて勝をえん この口唇はわがものなり誰かわれらに主たらんやと

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

5 ヱホバのたまはく 苦しむもの掠められ貧しきもの歎くがゆゑに我いま起てこれをその慕ひもとむる平安におかん

Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says Jehovah. I will set him in the safety he gasps for.

6 ヱホバの言はきよきことばなり 地にまうけたる爐にてねり七次きよめたる白銀のごとし

The words of Jehovah are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace on the earth, purified seven times.

7 ヱホバよ汝はかれらをまもり之をたすけてとこしへにこの類より免れしめたまはん

Thou will keep them, O Jehovah. Thou will preserve them from this generation forever.

8 人の子のなかに穢しきことの崇めらるるときは惡者ここやかしこにあるくなり

The wicked walk on every side when vileness is exalted among the sons of men.