Saturday, November 12, 2016

I will do something! The poor are mistreated and helpless people moan. Psalm 12

12 Please help me, Lord!
    All who were faithful
    and all who were loyal
    have disappeared.
2 Everyone tells lies,
    and no one is sincere.
3 Won’t you chop off
all flattering tongues
    that brag so loudly?
4 They say to themselves,
“We are great speakers.
    No one else has a chance.”
5 But you, Lord, tell them,
    “I will do something!
The poor are mistreated
and helpless people moan.
    I’ll rescue all who suffer.”
6 Our Lord, you are true
    to your promises,
and your word is like silver
    heated seven times
    in a fiery furnace.
7 You will protect us
    and always keep us safe
    from those people.
8 But all who are wicked
    will keep on strutting,
    while everyone praises
    their shameless deeds.

Contemporary English Version

I wish I could find or make a comparison between the Jewish scriptures and the pagan and other scriptures for how many times they call for justice to the destitute, the poor, the outsiders, the despised as opposed to being praise or support for the economic, political and religious elites.  My guess is that there is a hands-down win for the Jewish scriptures being on the side of the disadvantaged by that measure.  

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