Psalms 12:1
How long, O Lord, will you forget me? for ever? how long will you turn away your face from me? 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
In Context
Cross References
1 Chronicles 15:21And Mattathias, and Eliphalu, and Makenia, and Abdedom, and Jeiel, and Ozias, with harps of Amasenith, to make a loud noise.
Psalms 6:1O Lord, rebuke me not in your wrath, neither chasten me in your anger. 1
Psalms 54:1Listen, O God, to my prayer; and disregard not my supplication. 1
Isaiah 1:9+ 1:9 Rom 9:29 And if the Lord of Sabaoth had not left us a seed, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been made like Gomorrha.
Isaiah 57:1See how the just man has perished, and no one lays it to heart: and righteous men are taken away, and no one considers: for the righteous has been removed out of the way of injustice.
Isaiah 59:13We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God: we have spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 12:1
It is supposed that David penned this psalm in Saul's reign, when there was a general decay of honesty and piety both in court and country, which he here complains of to God, and very feelingly, for he himself suffered by the treachery of his false friends and the insolence of his sworn enemies. I. He begs help of God, because there were none among men whom he durst trust, ver. 1, 2 . II. He foretels the destruction of his proud and threatening enemies, ver. 3, 4 . III. He assures himself and others that, how ill… Read the whole commentary →