Psalms 12:5
(12:6) Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord: I will grant safety to him for whom the other layeth a snare.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
4(12:5) Who have said, With our tongue will we be mighty; our lips are with us; who is Lord over us!
Cross References
Exodus 2:23And it came to pass in this long time, that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried; and their complaint came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
Exodus 5:2And Pharaoh said, Who is the Everlasting, whose voice I am to obey, to let Israel go? I know not the Everlasting, nor will I let Israel go.
Job 5:15But who saveth from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty, the needy one:
Psalms 10:5Prosperous are his ways at all times; far in the height [remain] thy punishments away from him: all his assailants—he puffeth at them.
Psalms 10:18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that not farther more shall be arrogant the mortal from the earth.
Psalms 34:6(34:7) This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and out of all his distresses did he save him.
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 →