Written approximately 3,000 years ago, give or take a few decades, or a century. Yet as timely as today. I would challenge anyone who was face to face with me to look me in the eye and deny this.

Ken Pullen, administrator of A CROOKED PATH, Thursday, June 2nd, 2022

 

“…for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man”

 

Psalm 12 — English Standard Version Translation

The Faithful Have Vanished

To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith.a A Psalm of David.

Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone;
for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man
Everyone utters lies to his neighbor;
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 tongue we will prevail,
our lips are with us; who is master over us?”

“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan,
I will now arise,” says the LORD;
“I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”
The words of the LORD are pure words,
like silver refined in a furnace on the ground,
purified seven times.

You, O LORD, will keep them;
you will guard usb from this generation forever.
On every side the wicked prowl,
as vileness is exalted among the children of man.

 

 

Footnotes:
a 1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
b 7 Or guard him