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Psalms 12:7
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You, Lord, will guard us;you will protect us from this generation forever.
You will keep them, LORD, You will preserve them from this generation forever.
Thou shalt keep them, O Lord , thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
You, O Lord , will keep them; you will guard us from this generation forever.
Lord , you will keep us safe; you will always protect us from such people.
You, Lord , will protect them; you will continually shelter each one from these evil people,
You, O LORD, will preserve and keep them; You will protect him from this [evil] generation forever.
You, LORD, will keep them; You will protect him from this generation forever.
You will keep them, Yahweh, You will preserve them from this generation forever.
Thou wilt keepe them, O Lord: thou wilt preserue him from this generation for euer.
You, O Yahweh, will keep them;You will guard him from this generation forever.
You, O LORD, will keep us; You will forever guard us from this generation.
You will protect us and always keep us safe from those people.
The words of Adonai are pure words, silver in a melting-pot set in the earth, refined and purified seven times over.
Thou, Jehovah, wilt keep them, thou wilt preserve them from this generation for ever.
Lord , take care of the helpless. Protect them forever from the wicked people in this world.
Thou shalt keep them, O LORD; thou shalt preserve me and save me from this generation for ever.
The wicked are everywhere, and everyone praises what is evil. Keep us always safe, O Lord , and preserve us from such people.
You, O Yahweh, will protect them. You will preserve him from this generation always.
You shall keep them, O Jehovah; You shall preserve them from this generation forever.
Kepe the therfore (o LORDE) and preserue vs fro this generacion for euer.
Thou wilt keep them, O Jehovah, Thou wilt preserve them from this generation for ever.
You will keep them, O Lord, you will keep them safe from this generation for ever.
The words of the LORD are pure words,
Thou shalt keepe them, (O Lord,) thou shalt preserue them, from this generation for euer.
[Wherfore] thou wylt kepe the godly, O God: thou wylt preserue euery one of them from this generation for euer.
Thou, O Lord, shalt keep us, and shalt preserve us, from this generation, and for ever.
Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
Thou, Lord, schalt kepe vs; and thou `schalt kepe vs fro this generacioun with outen ende.
You will keep them, O Yahweh, You will preserve them from this generation forever.
Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
You shall keep them, O LORD, You shall preserve them from this generation forever.
O Lord, You will keep us. You will keep us safe forever from the people of this day.
You, O Lord , will protect us; you will guard us from this generation forever.
Thou, O Yahweh, wilt keep them, - Thou wilt guard him, from this generation unto times age-abiding.
(11-8) Thou, O Lord, wilt preserve us: and keep us from this generation for ever.
Do thou, O LORD, protect us, guard us ever from this generation.
Thou, O Jehovah, dost preserve them, Thou keepest us from this generation to the age.
You, O Lord , will keep them; You will preserve him from this generation forever.
Contextual Overview
For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by an eight-stringed instrument.
Help, O Lord , for the godly are fast disappearing! The faithful have vanished from the earth! 2 Neighbors lie to each other, speaking with flattering lips and deceitful hearts. 3 May the Lord cut off their flattering lips and silence their boastful tongues. 4 They say, "We will lie to our hearts' content. Our lips are our own—who can stop us?" 5 The Lord replies, "I have seen violence done to the helpless, and I have heard the groans of the poor. Now I will rise up to rescue them, as they have longed for me to do." 6 The Lord 's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over. 7 Therefore, Lord , we know you will protect the oppressed, preserving them forever from this lying generation, 8 even though the wicked strut about, and evil is praised throughout the land.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thou shalt: Psalms 16:1, Psalms 37:28, Psalms 37:40, Psalms 121:8, Psalms 145:20, Deuteronomy 33:3, 1 Samuel 2:9, Isaiah 27:3, 1 Peter 1:5, Jude 1:1
them: etc. Heb. him, i.e. every one of them
this: Psalms 10:18, Matthew 3:7
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 18:10 - they found thee not
Cross-References
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord , and there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose.
After that, Abram traveled south and set up camp in the hill country, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built another altar and dedicated it to the Lord , and he worshiped the Lord .
Then Abram continued traveling south by stages toward the Negev.
When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife. Let's kill him; then we can have her!'
This was the same place where Abram had built the altar, and there he worshiped the Lord again.
I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession.
So Abram moved his camp to Hebron and settled near the oak grove belonging to Mamre. There he built another altar to the Lord .
So the Lord made a covenant with Abram that day and said, "I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River—
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am El-Shaddai—‘God Almighty.' Serve me faithfully and live a blameless life.
At this, Abram fell face down on the ground. Then God said to him,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou shall keep them, O Lord,.... Not the words before mentioned, as Aben Ezra explains it, for the affix is masculine and not feminine; not but God has wonderfully kept and preserved the sacred writings; and he keeps every word of promise which he has made; and the doctrines of the Gospel will always continue from one generation to another; but the sense is, that God will keep the poor and needy, and such as he sets in safety, as Kimchi rightly observes: they are not their own keepers, but God is the keeper of them; he keeps them by his power, and in his Son, in whose hands they are, and who is able to keep them from falling; they are kept by him from a total and final falling away; from the dominion and damning power of sin, and from being devoured by Satan, and from the evil of the world: and this the psalmist had good reason to believe, because of the love of God to them, his covenant with them, and the promises of safety and salvation he has made unto them;
thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever; or "thou shalt preserve him" p; that is, everyone of the poor and needy, from the wicked generation of men in which they live, from being corrupted or intimidated by them; and who are described in the beginning of the psalm. Some take these words to be a prayer, "keep thou them, O Lord, and preserve them", c. q and so the following words may be thought to be a reason or argument enforcing the request.
p תצרנו "custodies eum", Pagninus, Montanus, Gejerus, Michaelis; so Ainsworth. q "Custodi eum", Tigurine version, Vatablus, "custodito eorum quemque", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
“Thou shalt keep them That is, the persons referred to in Psalms 12:5 - the poor and the needy who were suffering from the wrongs inflicted on them. The idea is, that God would guard and defend them. They were safe in his hands. Compare Psalms 37:3-7.
From this generation - This generation, or this race of detractors, flatterers, and oppressors. The idea is, that that entire generation was eminently wicked, and that none but God could deliver the poor and the needy from their designs.
Forever - That is, “constantly,” or as long as they would need the divine protection. God would not interpose and save them from the “present” trouble, and then leave them to the designs of their enemies, but he would “always” interpose as often as there was any need of his help. That is, they were now, and would be at all times, entirely safe. They had nothing to fear, for God was their refuge and their help.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 12:7. Thou shalt keep them - thou shalt preserve them — Instead of the pronoun them in these clauses, several MSS., with the Septuagint, the Vulgate, and the Arabic, have us. The sense is equally good in both readings. God did bring forth the Israelites from Babylon, according to his word; he separated them from that generation, and reinstated them in their own land, according to his word; and most certainly he has preserved them from generation to generation to the present day, in a most remarkable manner.
