Psalms 12:5
(12-6) '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 at whom they puff.'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
4(12-5) Who have said: 'Our tongue will we make mighty; our lips are with us: who is lord over us?'
Cross References
Exodus 2:23And it came to pass in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
Exodus 5:2And Pharaoh said: 'Who is the LORD, that I should hearken unto His voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.'
Job 5:15But He saveth from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
Psalms 10:5His ways prosper at all times; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
Psalms 10:18To right the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.
Psalms 34:6(34-7) This poor man cried, and the LORD heard, and saved him out of all his troubles.
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 →