Mazmur 12:1

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Untuk pemimpin biduan. Menurut lagu: Yang kedelapan. Mazmur Daud. (12-2) Tolonglah kiranya, TUHAN, sebab orang saleh telah habis, telah lenyap orang-orang yang setia dari antara anak-anak manusia.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Untuk pemimpin biduan. Menurut lagu: Yang kedelapan. Mazmur Daud. (12-2) Tolonglah kiranya, TUHAN, sebab orang saleh telah habis, telah lenyap orang-orang yang setia dari antara anak-anak manusia.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Mazmur Daud bagi biduan besar, pada Syeminit.

Contextual Overview

¹ Saue thou [me] O God, for there is not one godly man left: for the faythfull are diminished from among the chyldren of men. ² Euery one vseth vayne talke with his neyghbour: and speaketh with a double heart out of flatteryng lippes. ³ God wyll cut away all flatteryng lippes: [and] the tongue that speaketh great thinges. ⁴ Whiche say, we wyll preuayle with our tongue: our lippes are our owne, who is Lorde ouer vs? ⁵ For the calamities of the oppressed, for the deepe sighyng of the poore, I wyll nowe vp sayeth God: and I wyll put in safetie, [hym] whom the [wicked] hath snared. ⁶ The wordes of God be wordes pure, as the siluer tryed in a furnace of earth: and purified seuen times. ⁷ [Wherfore] thou wylt kepe the godly, O God: thou wylt preserue euery one of them from this generation for euer. ⁸ The vngodly walke on euery side: when the worst sort be exalted amongst the chyldren of men.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Help: or, Save, Psalms 3:7, Psalms 6:4, Psalms 54:1, Matthew 8:25, Matthew 14:30

godly: Genesis 6:12, Isaiah 1:9, Isaiah 1:21, Isaiah 1:22, Isaiah 57:1, Isaiah 63:5, Jeremiah 5:1, Micah 7:1, Micah 7:2, Matthew 24:12

faithful: Proverbs 20:6, Isaiah 59:4, Isaiah 59:13-15

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 13:14 - he died 1 Chronicles 12:17 - If ye be come 1 Chronicles 15:21 - Sheminith to excel 1 Chronicles 16:7 - into the hand Job 30:25 - was Psalms 6:1 - Sheminith Psalms 60:4 - because Ecclesiastes 7:28 - one Isaiah 59:15 - truth Amos 7:2 - for Habakkuk 1:3 - General 2 Peter 2:9 - the godly

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great people, and wyll blesse thee, and make thy name great, that thou shalt be [euen] a blessyng.

Genesis 12:3
I wyll also blesse them that blesse thee, and curse the that curseth thee: and in thee shall all kinredes of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 12:6
Abram passed through the lande, vnto the place of Sichem, vnto the plaine of Moreh. And the Chanaanite [was] then in the lande.

Genesis 12:10
[And] the there was a famine in that lande, and therfore went Abram downe into Egypt, that he myght soiourne there, for there was a greeuons famine in the lande.

Genesis 12:11
And when he was come neare to enter into Egypt, he sayde vnto Sarai his wife: beholde, I knowe that thou art a fayre woman to loke vpon:

Genesis 15:7
And agayne he saide vnto him: I am the Lorde that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to geue thee this lande, & that thou myghtest inherite it.

Nehemiah 9:7
Thou art, O Lorde, the God that hast chosen Abraham, and broughtest him out of Ur in Chaldea, and calledst him Abraham:

Isaiah 41:9
Thou art he whom I led from the endes of the earth: for I called thee euen from among the glorious men of it, and sayd vnto thee, Thou art my seruaunt, I haue chosen thee, and not cast thee away.

Isaiah 51:2
Consider Abraham your father, and Sara that bare you, how that I called hym alone, and blessed hym, and encreased hym.

Ezekiel 33:24
Thou sonne of man, these that dwell in the wasted lande of Israel talke and say: Abraham was but one man, and he had the lande in possession: nowe are we many, and the lande is geuen vs to possesse also.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth,.... A godly man, according to the notation of the word z, is one that has received grace and mercy of the Lord; as pardoning mercy, justifying and adopting grace; and who has principles of grace, goodness, and holiness, wrought in him; who fears the Lord, and serves him acceptably, with reverence and godly fear, and sorrows for sin, after a godly sort; who loves the Lord, and hopes and believes in him; who is regenerated and sanctified by the Spirit of God, and is a true worshipper of God, and lives in all holy conversation and godliness; and, particularly, is "beneficent", "kind", and "merciful" a unto men: such may be said to "cease" when there are but few of them; when their number is greatly reduced b, either by death, or when such who have seemed, and have been thought to be so, prove otherwise: in a view of which, the psalmist prays for help and salvation; "help", or "save" c Lord; meaning himself, being destitute of the company, counsel, and assistance of good and gracious men; or the cause and interest of religion, which he feared would sink by the ceasing of godly men. When all friends and refuge fail, saints betake themselves to God, and their salvation is of him; and he is their present help in a time of trouble; and he saves and reserves for himself a number in the worst of times; as he did in Elijah's time, who thought there was no godly man left but himself; see Romans 11:1;

for the faithful fail from among the children of men; so that there are none left among them but carnal, unregenerate, ungodly, and unfaithful men. The "faithful" are such who are upright in heart and conversation; who trust in the Lord, and believe in the Messiah; who abide by the truths and ordinances of God; and are faithful in what is committed to their trust, whether they be gifts of nature, Providence, or grace; and to their fellow Christians, in advising, reproving, c. when needful: these may fail in the exercise of grace, and in the discharge of duty, but not so as to perish eternally. The words design the paucity of them, and the sad degeneracy of the times to which they refer: and they may belong either to the times of David, when Saul's courtiers flattered him, and spoke evil of David when the men of Keilah intended to have delivered him up; when the Ziphites discovered him to Saul, and invited him to come and take him; or when Absalom rose up in rebellion against him, and so many of the people fell off from him: or else to the times of Christ; the people of the Jews in his age were a wicked and faithless generation; and even among his own disciples there was great want of fidelity: one betrayed him, another denied him, and all forsook him and fled; after his death, some doubted his being the Redeemer, and one of them could not believe he was risen from the dead, when he was. And these words may be applied to the antichristian times, the times of the grand apostasy, and falling away from the faith, upon the revealing of the man of sin; since which the holy city is trodden under foot; the witnesses prophesy in sackcloth; and the church is in the wilderness, and is hid there. Yea, to the second coming of Christ, when there will be great carnality and security, and little faith found in the earth. A like complaint with this see in Isaiah 57:1.

z חסיד "passive pro beneficiario, sive alterius beneficiis gratiosis cumulato", Gejerus. a "Misericors", Pagninus, Mariana; beneficus, Junius Tremellius, Piscator. b "Rari quippe boni", &c. Juvenal. Satyr. 13. v. 36. c הושיעה "serva", Pagninus, Cocceius "da salutem", Junius & Tremellius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Help, Lord - Hebrew, “Save, Yahweh.” The idea is that there was no human help, and, therefore, the divine help is implored. The psalmist saw that those on whom reliance was usually placed for the promotion of the cause of truth and virtue now failed, and hence, he invites the divine interposition.

For the godly man - The word used here properly denotes the “merciful” man - חסיד châsı̂yd. It is a term applied to the righteous, because it is a prominent trait in the character of a pious man that he is merciful, kind, benignant. Hence, the general character is often denoted by the special characteristic; in the same way as we speak of a pious man as a good man, a just man, a righteous man. The idea suggested by the use of the term here is, that it is always a characteristic of a pious man that he is merciful or benignant. Compare Psalms 4:3; Psalms 32:6, where the same word is rendered “godly;” Psalms 30:4; Psalms 31:23; Psalms 37:28; Psalms 50:5; Psalms 52:9; Psalms 79:2; Psalms 85:8, where it is rendered saints; and Deuteronomy 33:8; Psalms 16:10; Psalms 86:2; Psalms 89:19, where it is rendered “holy.” “Ceaseth.” The word used here - גמר gâmar - means properly to bring to an end; to complete; to perfect. Hence, it means to come to an end, to cease, to fail.

Gesenius. - This might occur either by their being cut off by death; or by their ceasing to exert their influence in favor of religion; that is, by a general prevalence of wickedness among those who professed to be the friends of God. The latter seems to be the meaning here, since, in the following verses, the psalmist proceeds to specify the manner in which they “fail;” not by death, but by speaking vanity, falsehood, and flattery. That is, their conduct was such that their influence failed, or was lost to the community. No reliance could be placed on them, and, therefore, the psalmist so earnestly calls on God for his interposition. The idea is, that when men professing religion become conformed to the world - when they live like other men - when they cease to exert an influence in favor of piety - when they fall into habits of sin, it is a time to call on God with special earnestness for his aid. Often such conduct on the part of the professed friends of religion makes such an appeal to God more proper than even the death of good men does, for, in the latter case, their influence is simply withdrawn; in the former, not only is this influence which they might exert lost to the church, but there is a positive bad influence to be counteracted. The fall of a professor of religion into sin is a greater loss to the church than his death would be.

For the faithful - Those who profess faith; those who are bound by their vows to be faithful to God and to his cause. The word is equivalent to the believing, and is properly expressive of trust or faith in God.

Fail from among the children of men - Fail, as above noted, by their misconduct; by being false to the trust committed to them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

PSALM XII

The psalmist, destitute of human comfort, craves help from God,

1;

gives the character of those who surrounded him, and denounces

God's judgments against them, 2-5;

confides in the promises of God, and in his protection of him

and all good men, 6-8.

NOTES ON PSALM XII

The inscription to this Psalm is: To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. See on the title of Psalms 6:1. The Arabic has "Concerning the end (of the world which shall happen) on the eighth day. A prophecy relative to the Advent of the Messiah."

Some think that this Psalm was made when Doeg and the Ziphites betrayed David to Saul, see 1 Samuel 22:9; 1 Samuel 23:19; c., but it is most likely that was written during the Babylonish captivity.

Verse Psalms 12:1. Help, Lord — Save me, O Lord for merciful men fail, and faithful men have passed away from the sons of Adam. Make safe me, Lord; for haly failed, for lessed es sothfastnes fra sons of men. OLD MS.