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Psalm 12:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Help, Lord, for no one loyal remains; the faithful have vanished from the children of men.

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Of the Issacharites, their chiefs who were endowed with an understanding of the times and who knew what Israel had to do: two hundred chiefs, together with all their kinsmen under their command.

Their mouths are full of oaths, violence, and lies; discord and evil are under their tongues.

I said in my alarm, “All men are liars!”

deliver me; rescue me from the hands of foreign foes. Their mouths speak untruth; their right hands are raised in lying oaths.

Their mouths speak untruth; their right hands are raised in lying oaths.

Do not drag me off with the wicked, with those who do wrong, Who speak peace to their neighbors though evil is in their hearts.

Friends and companions shun my disease; my neighbors stand far off.

My enemies say bad things against me: ‘When will he die and his name be forgotten?’

Lord, guide me in your justice because of my foes; make straight your way before me.

He stretched out his hand at his friends and broke his covenant.

Slay them not, God, lest they deceive my people. Shake them by your power; Lord, our shield, bring them down.

How long will you set yourself against a man? You shall all be destroyed, Like a sagging wall or a tumbled down fence!

A slanderer reveals secrets; so have nothing to do with a babbler!

Many say, “My loyal friend,” but who can find someone worthy of trust?

Those who speak flattery to their neighbor cast a net at their feet.

Say to them: This is the nation which does not listen to the voice of the Lord, its God, or take correction. Faithfulness has disappeared; the word itself is banished from their speech.

Should I not punish them for these deeds—oracle of the Lord; on a nation such as this should I not take vengeance?

No longer shall there be any false visions or deceitful divinations within the house of Israel,

The faithful have vanished from the earth, no mortal is just! They all lie in wait to shed blood, each one ensnares the other.

For such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites, and by fair and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Nor, indeed, did we ever appear with flattering speech, as you know, or with a pretext for greed—God is witness—

since he is a man of two minds, unstable in all his ways.




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