Psalms 12:6
By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor, now will I arise, saith the Lord. I win set him in safety; I will deal confidently in his regard.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
In Context
5Who have said: We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own; who is Lord over us?
Cross References
Exodus 3:8And knowing their sorrow, I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good and spacious land, into a land that floweth with milk and honey, to the places of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite.
2 Samuel 22:31God, his way is immaculate, the word of the Lord is tried by fire: he is the shield of all that trust in him.
Job 28:1Silver hath beginnings of its veins, and gold hath a place wherein it is melted.
Psalms 18:30For by thee I shall be delivered from temptation; and through my God I shall go over a wall.
Psalms 66:10For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us by fire, as silver is tried.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 12:2-8
Complaints of the Times. 1 Help, Lord ; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. 3 The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: 4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? 5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord ; I will… Read the whole commentary →