NIRV.ESV

  • DBU
  • ELB
  • EU
  • GNB
  • HFA
  • LUT
  • MENG
  • NeÜ
  • NGÜ
  • NLB
  • SLT
  • ZB
✕

Anmelden
... und alle Funktionen nutzen!

Psalm 12,3 | New International Reader’s Version English Standard Version

Psalm 12,3 | New International Reader’s Version

For the director of music. According to sheminith. A psalm of David.

1 Help, LORD! No one does what is right anymore. Those who are faithful have disappeared from the human race. 2 Everyone tells lies to their neighbours. With their lips they praise others, but they don’t really mean it. 3 May the LORD close all lips that don’t mean what they say. May he stop every tongue that boasts. 4 They say, ‘What we speak with our tongues will win the battle. What we say with our lips will keep us safe. No one will have victory over us.’ 5 The LORD says, ‘The poor are being robbed. Those who are in need groan. So I will stand up to help them. I will keep them safe from those who tell lies about them.’ 6 The words of the LORD are perfect. They are like silver made pure in a clay furnace. They are like gold made pure seven times over. 7 LORD, you will keep needy people safe. You will always keep sinners from hurting us. 8 Proud and sinful people walk around openly when the evil they do is praised by the human race.

Holy Bible, New International Reader’s Version®, NIrV® (Anglicised) Copyright © 1995, 1996, 1998, 2014 by Biblica, Inc.® Used with permission. All rights reserved worldwide. “Biblica”, “International Bible Society” and the Biblica Logo are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc. Used with permission.

English Standard Version

The Faithful Have Vanished

1 To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith.* A Psalm of David. Save, O Lord, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man. 2 Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak. 3 May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts, 4 those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?” 5 “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.” 6 The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times. 7 You, O Lord, will keep them; you will guard us* from this generation forever. 8 On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the children of man.