Psalm 12:1[1] Help, Yahveh, because there is no faithful one left; the loyal ones have vanished from the children of Adam.
Psalm 12:2 They say trivial things[2] to one another; they speak with flattering lips and deceptive hearts.
Psalm 12:3 May Yahveh cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that only says great things.
Psalm 12:4 They say, “Through our tongues we have power; our lips are our own – who can be our master? “
Psalm 12:5 “Because of the disaster of the needy and the groaning of the poor, I will now rise,” says Yahveh. “I will provide rescue[3] for the one who longs for it.”
Psalm 12:6 The words of Yahveh are pure words, like silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
Psalm 12:7 You, Yahveh, will guard us; you will protect us from this generation permanently.
Psalm 12:8 The wicked ones keep walking all around when the children of Adam still promote vileness.[4]
Psalm 11:1[1] I have taken refuge in Yahveh. How can you say to my throat, “Escape to the mountains like a bird!
Psalm 11:2 “Because notice, the wicked ones are stringing bows; they put their arrows on bowstrings to shoot from the shadows at the ones whose hearts are upright.
Psalm 11:3 “When the foundations we depend on are destroyed, what can the righteous ones do? “
Psalm 11:4 Yahveh is in his holy temple; Yahveh –his throne is in the sky. His eyes are watching; his gaze is examining the children of Adam.
Psalm 11:5 Yahveh examines the righteous, but his throat hates the wicked and those who love violence.
Psalm 11:6 Let him rain burning coals and sulfur on the wicked ones; let a scorching wind be the portion in their cup.
Psalm 11:7 Because Yahveh is righteous; he loves righteous deeds. The upright will see his face.[2]
Psalm 10:1 Yahveh, why are you standing so far away? Why are you hiding in hard times?
Psalm 10:2 Arrogantly, the wicked ones stalk their victims; let them be caught in the traps they have dreamed up.
Psalm 10:3 Because the wicked one brags about his throat’s lusts; the greedy one ‘blesses’ while despising Yahveh.
Psalm 10:4 While he is scheming, the wicked person arrogantly thinks, “There’s no accountability, since there’s no God.”
Psalm 10:5 The roads he takes are always safe; your high judgments do not affect him; he scoffs at all his enemies.
Psalm 10:6 He says to himself, “I will never be moved — from generation to generation without disaster.”
Psalm 10:7 Cursing, lying, and violence fill his mouth; trouble and malice readily come out of his tongue.
Psalm 10:8 He waits in ambush near settlements; he kills the innocent in secret places. His eyes pursue the helpless;
Psalm 10:9 He hides in secret like a lion in a bush. He hides to seize a victim, who he seizes and drags into his net. Psalm 10:10 So he is oppressed and smashed up. Helpless people die because of the wicked one’s strength.
Psalm 10:11 He says to himself, “God has forgotten; he has hidden his face and will not see perpetually.”
Psalm 10:12 Rise, Yahveh God! Lift your hand. Do not forget the miserable ones.
Psalm 10:13 Why has the wicked person despised God? He says to himself, “You will not follow it up.”
Psalm 10:14 But you yourself have been watching trouble and grief, observing it in order to take the matter into your hands. The helpless one is entrusting himself to you; you are a helper of the fatherless.
Psalm 10:15 Break the arm of the wicked, evil person, until you look for his wickedness, but find it no more.
Psalm 10:16 Yahveh is King permanently and continually; the nations will be destroyed from his land.
Psalm 10:17 Yahveh, you have heard what the humble are asking; you will strengthen their hearts. You will listen carefully,
Psalm 10:18 defending the fatherless and the exploited so that mortal humankind from the ground may terrorize them no more.[1]
