Psalms 12:5
“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
Majority Standard Bible
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In Context
4They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”
6The words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.
Cross References
Exodus 2:23After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
Exodus 5:2But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”
Job 5:15He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.
Psalms 10:5He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.
Psalms 10:18to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
Psalms 34:6This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from 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 →