Psalms 12:5
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffs at him.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
6The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Cross References
Exodus 2:23And it came to pass in process of time, 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 obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
Job 5:15But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Psalms 10:5His ways are always grievous; your judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffs at them.
Psalms 10:18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
Psalms 34:6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, 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 →