You repeat what you hear

Psalm 12

1 Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases to be,
For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.

2 They speak falsehood to one another;
With flattering lips and with a double heart they speak.

3 May the Lord cut off all flattering lips,
The tongue that speaks great things;

4 Who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail;
Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?”

5 “Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,
Now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will set him in the safety for which he longs.”

6 The words of the Lord are pure words;
As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times.

7 You, O Lord, will keep them;
You will preserve him from this generation forever.

8 The wicked strut about on every side
When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.