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Psalms Chapter 12

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The chapter portrays a wicked person as a wolf that devours the righteous. It warns that the wicked will be destroyed while the righteous are safe. The psalmist ends with the assurance that the righteous will be saved.

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(1) To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 6:1I Chronicles 15:21Psalms 3:7Psalms 6:4Psalms 54:1Matthew 8:25Matthew 14:30Genesis 6:12Isaiah 1:9Isaiah 1:21Isaiah 1:22Isaiah 57:1

Related verses (shared words)

Psalms 70:1Psalms 6:1

(2) They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
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Psalms 10:7Psalms 36:3Psalms 36:4Psalms 38:12Psalms 41:6Psalms 52:1Psalms 52:2Psalms 52:3Psalms 52:4Psalms 59:12Psalms 144:8Psalms 144:11

Related verses (shared words)

Revelation 18:6Ecclesiastes 1:2

(3) The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
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Job 32:22Psalms 17:10Psalms 73:8Psalms 73:9Exodus 15:9I Samuel 2:3I Samuel 17:43I Samuel 17:44II Kings 19:23II Kings 19:24Isaiah 10:10Ezekiel 28:2

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I Corinthians 14:2Jeremiah 9:8

(4) Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
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Jeremiah 18:18James 3:5James 3:6Genesis 3:5Exodus 5:2Job 21:14Job 21:15Jeremiah 2:31Daniel 3:15II Thessalonians 2:4

(5) 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.
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Psalms 10:12Psalms 74:21Psalms 74:22Psalms 79:10Psalms 79:11Psalms 146:7Psalms 146:8Exodus 2:23Exodus 2:24Exodus 3:7Exodus 3:8Exodus 3:9

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Deuteronomy 15:11Psalms 35:10Psalms 72:13Isaiah 14:30Ezekiel 22:29

(6) The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
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Psalms 18:30Psalms 19:8Psalms 119:140II Samuel 22:31Proverbs 30:5Psalms 66:10

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Exodus 38:17I Chronicles 28:17Psalms 66:10Titus 1:15

(7) Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
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Psalms 16:1Psalms 37:28Psalms 37:40Psalms 121:8Psalms 145:20Deuteronomy 33:3I Samuel 2:9Isaiah 27:3I Peter 1:5Jude 1:1Psalms 10:18Matthew 3:7

(8) The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
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Proverbs 29:12Hosea 5:11Micah 6:16Judges 9:18Judges 9:19Judges 9:20Judges 9:21Judges 9:22Judges 9:23Judges 9:24Judges 9:25Judges 9:26

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