Psalm 12 (2026)

The original Psalm 12 (NRSV-CI):

Help, O Lord, for there is no longer anyone who is godly;
the faithful have disappeared from humankind.
They utter lies to each other;
with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
May the Lord cut off all flattering lips,
the tongue that makes great boasts,
those who say, ‘With our tongues we will prevail;
our lips are our own—who is our master?’
‘Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan,
I will now rise up,’ says the Lord;
‘I will place them in the safety for which they long.’
The promises of the Lord are promises that are pure,
silver refined in a furnace on the ground,
purified seven times.
You, O Lord, will protect us;
you will guard us from this generation for ever.
On every side the wicked prowl,
as vileness is exalted among humankind.

Oh Lord, if you’re out there,please help us in haste —for the false god in his lairis laying all to waste. The wickedly faithfulhave snared all humankind,no matter how distastefultheir cultivated lack of a spine. Their dark David still whisperswith split tongue in their earsto flatter with false Scripturesand strum on the lyre of their fears. They shall render to red Caesarall their cryptified gold,they shall be his appeasersand speak as they’re told. Will You pin shut their lie-lipsand silence their bile-boasts,or will You stay in eclipsewhen we need you the most? Selah. Oh Lord, if you’re out there,please help us in haste —for the false god in his lairis laying all to waste.