Psalms Chapter 12 verse 1 Holy Bible
Help, Jehovah; for the godly man ceaseth; For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
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<For the chief music-maker on the Sheminith. A Psalm. Of David.> Send help, Lord, for mercy has come to an end; there is no more faith among the children of men.
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{To the chief Musician. Upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David.} Save, Jehovah, for the godly man is gone; for the faithful have failed from among the children of men.
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Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
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> Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
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To the Overseer, on the octave. -- A Psalm of David. Save, Jehovah, for the saintly hath failed, For the stedfast have ceased From the sons of men:
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 1. - Help, Lord; rather, Save, Lord, as in the margin (comp. Psalm 20:9; Psalm 28:9; Psalm 60:5, etc.). For the godly man ceaseth. "Ceaseth," i.e., "out of the land " - either slain or driven into exile. We must make allowance for poetic hyperbole. For the faithful fail from among the children of men (compare, for the sentiment, Micah 7:2). The writer, for the moment, loses sight of the "remnant" - the "little flock " - which assuredly remained, and of which he speaks in vers. 5 and 7.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(1) Ceaseth.--Intransitive, as in Psalm 7:9.The faithful.--The Vulg. and Syriac treat this word as abstract: "truth," "faithfulness." So Ewald; but the parallelism here, as in Psalm 31:23, requires it in the concrete. (Comp. 2Samuel 20:19.) The Hebrew is cognate with "amen," and Luther has "amen's leute," people as good as their word.
