7 Thou, Jehovah, wilt keep them, thou wilt preserve them from this generation for ever.
for Jehovah loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: They are preserved for ever; but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
who are kept guarded by [the] power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in [the] last time.
He keepeth the feet of his saints, but the wicked are silenced in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
To do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed one, that the man of the earth may terrify no more.
And Jehovah will help them and deliver them: he will deliver them from the wicked, and save them; for they trust in him.
Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming in, from henceforth and for evermore.
I Jehovah keep it, I will water it every moment; lest any harm it, I will keep it night and day.
But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?
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Commentary on Psalms 12 Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
PSALM 12
Ps 12:1-8. On title, see Introduction and see on Ps 6:1. The Psalmist laments the decrease of good men. The pride and deceit of the wicked provokes God's wrath, whose promise to avenge the cause of pious sufferers will be verified even amidst prevailing iniquity.
1. the faithful—or literally, "faithfulness" (Ps 31:23).
2. The want of it is illustrated by the prevalence of deceit and instability.
3, 4. Boasting (Da 7:25) is, like flattery, a species of lying.
lips, and … tongue—for persons.
5. The writer intimates his confidence by depicting God's actions (compare Ps 9:19; 10:12) as coming to save the poor at whom the wicked sneer (Ps 10:5).
6. The words—literally, "saying of" (Ps 12:5).
seven times—thoroughly (Da 3:19).
7. them—(Margin.)
8. The wicked roam undisturbed doing evil, when vileness and vile men are exalted.