Chapter 12
Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
(Title
&) Sheminith. or, The eighth.
6.1 *title; 1 Chronicles 15.21
Help
or, Save.
3.7 6.4 54.1 Matthew 8.25 14.30
godly
Genesis 6.12 Isaiah 1.9,21,22 57.1 63.5 Jeremiah 5.1 Micah 7.1,2 Matthew 24.12
faithful
Proverbs 20.6 Isaiah 59.4,13-15
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
They
10.7 36.3,4 38.12 41.6 52.1-4 59.12 144.8,11 Jeremiah 9.2-6,8
flattering
5.9 28.3 62.4 Proverbs 20.19 29.5 Ezekiel 12.24 Romans 16.18 1 Thessalonians 2.5
a double heart
Heb. an heart and an heart.
1 Chronicles 12.33 *marg:; James 1.8
The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
cut
tongue
17.10 73.8,9 Exodus 15.9 1 Samuel 2.3 17.43,44 2 Kings 19.23,24 Isaiah 10.10 Ezekiel 28.2,9 29.3 Daniel 4.30,31 7.8,25 Malachi 3.13 2 Peter 2.18 Jude 1.16 Revelation 13.5
proud
Heb. great.
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
With
our own
Heb. with us. who.
Genesis 3.5 Exodus 5.2 Job 21.14,15 Jeremiah 2.31 Daniel 3.15 2 Thessalonians 2.4
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
oppression
10.12 74.21,22 79.10,11 146.7,8 Exodus 2.23,24 3.7-9 Judges 10.16 Proverbs 14.31 22.22,23 Ecclesiastes 4.1 5.8 Isaiah 19.20 Ezekiel 18.12,13,18 James 5.4
now
puffeth at
or, would ensnare.
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
words
18.30 19.8 119.140 2 Samuel 22.31 Proverbs 30.5
as silver
Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
thou shalt
16.1 37.28,40 121.8 145.20 Deuteronomy 33.3 1 Samuel 2.9 Isaiah 27.3 1 Peter 1.5 Jude 1.1
them, etc
Heb. him, i.e. every one of them. this.
The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
wicked
Proverbs 29.12 Hosea 5.11 Micah 6.16
when
Judges 9.18-57 1 Samuel 18.17,18 Esther 3.6-15 Isaiah 32.4-6 Mark 14.63-65
men
Heb. of the sons of men.