Psalms 12:8
Around the wicked walk continually, According as vileness is exalted by sons of men!
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
In Context
7Thou, O Jehovah, dost preserve them, Thou keepest us from this generation to the age.
Cross References
Judges 9:18and ye have risen against the house of my father to-day, and slay his sons, seventy men, on one stone, and cause Abimelech son of his handmaid to reign over the masters of Shechem, because he [is] your brother —
Esther 3:6and it is contemptible in his eyes to put forth a hand on Mordecai by himself, for they have declared to him the people of Mordecai, and Haman seeketh to destroy all the Jews who [are] in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus — the people of Mordecai.
Psalms 55:10By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness [are] in its midst,
Isaiah 32:4And the heart of those hastened Understandeth to know, And the tongue of stammerers hasteth to speak clearly.
Hosea 5:11Oppressed is Ephraim, broken in judgment, When he pleased he went after the command.
Mark 14:63And the chief priest, having rent his garments, saith, 'What need have we yet of witnesses?
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 →