Psalms 12

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Form—Psalms 12 starts as a lament by David crying out for help; summoning Yahweh to intervene (v.1). In v. 1-4 David makes his complaint and reason for the prayer of help (describing the wickedness of all), with an answer after every statement on what the Lord should do to those that commit the action described. Thus, v. 2 is answered, almost in the form of a syntax parallelism, by v.3—the same is true for vs. 4 & 5. v.5b—David induces Yahweh to intervene by stating, “I [Yahweh] will spring into action…” In vs. 6-8 the wisdom section begins with the facts, figuratively, on the ways of Yahweh. This can be seen in v. 6 by saying the words of the Lord (Yahweh) are absolute, and in v. 7 they (true words of Yahweh) “… will protect them.” It is important to notice throughout the Psalms that David requests Yahweh to get involved, for deceitful and proud tyrants, not to mention the godly are becoming something of the past, have infest the people. However, Yahweh states his intention and, then, David “asserts his confidence in the divine promise” (Psalms 12, 2017).
v.1—the Hebrew term sheminith (שְׁמִינִית—shÿminit) is not known; it is purported to be a particular style of music or an eight-stringed lyre. “Help, Lord”— the term qara’ (kaw-raw') means to
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Indicating that the words they speak are of no value, to the point of becoming evil. The way they go about speaking this evil is expressed in v.2b “with flattering”—chelqah (khel-kaw') meaning smoothness, slippery, smooth (being manipulative and cunning); “…and with a double heart”—leb figuratively used for the feelings, the will and even the intellect, again, with “speak”—(negatively) to subdue. “They speak” is used twice in v.2 to exaggerate and bring attention to (through its parallelism) how the falsehood was being completed- through their

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