Psalms 12:1

David cries for help because the godly and faithful seem to be vanishing. Surrounded by faithlessness, he turns to God for rescue.

Cross-references · 18

• Isa 57:1The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
• Jer 5:1“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.
• Matt 24:12Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.
• Isa 59:13–15transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
• Isa 1:21–22How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
• Ps 6:1For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.
• Isa 63:5I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; and my own wrath upheld me.
• Gen 6:12God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
• Prov 20:6Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?
• Mic 7:1–2Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.
• Ps 6:4Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness’ sake.
• 1 Chr 15:21and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre, to lead.
• Isa 1:9Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom; we would have been like Gomorrah.
• Matt 8:25They came to him, and woke him up, saying, “Save us, Lord! We are dying!”
• Ps 54:1For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Isn’t David hiding himself among us?” Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.
• Ps 3:7Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
• Matt 14:30But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!”
• Isa 59:4No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

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