Chapter 12

The psalmist asks for help because the godly are disappearing and people speak with flattering lips. The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined seven times, and he promises to protect the needy.

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

It is supposed that David penned this psalm in Saul’s reign, when there was a general decay of honesty and piety both in court and country, which he here complains of to God, and very feelingly, for he himself suffered by the treachery of his false friends and the insolence of his sworn enemies. I. He begs help of God, because there were none among men whom he durst trust, Ps. 12:1, 2. II. He fore…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

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Psa 12:1-8. On title, see Introduction and see on Psa 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” (Psa 31:23).