The wicked roam all over the place, while depravity is praised by human beings - Psalm 12

1 

Help, Lord, because the godly are all gone;
    the faithful have completely disappeared
    from the human race!
2
Everyone tells lies to everyone else;
    they talk with slick speech and divided hearts.
3
Let the Lord cut off all slick-talking lips
    and every tongue that brags and brags,
4
    that says, “We’re unbeatable with our tongues!
    Who could get the best of us with lips like ours?”

5
But the Lord says,
    “Because the poor are oppressed,
    because of the groans of the needy,
    I’m now standing up.
    I will provide the help they are gasping for.”
6
The Lord’s promises are pure,
    like silver that’s been refined in an oven,
    purified seven times over!

7
You, Lord, will keep us,
    protecting us from this generation forever.
8
The wicked roam all over the place,
    while depravity is praised by human beings.

Common English Bible

I don't think I have to point out the relevance to what is happening right now, not only here but around the world.   A cynic might wonder how long God's intervention is going to take,  I'd point out that that depends on whatever agencies God delivers those in.  In the case of human agency as would seem to be the one God chooses,  that depends on us.   Psalm 8 famously says:

You’ve let them rule over your handiwork,
    putting everything under their feet

That's not a controversial claim among atheists,  Marx is only one of the big thinkers of atheism to acknowledge that human agency is the dominant force, at least in the Earth's biosphere with the enhancement of that by the human innovations in technology and science.   I'd point out that the benefits of those as opposed to their evils are as dependent on human choices to be moral, immoral or amoral as the unspecified ground which the Psalmist sets the Psalm in.   The difference is that science and technology, by mutual human agreement, are exempted from that consideration.   Either a scientist or a technologist can work as a weaponeer, an Earth despoiling careerist, a theorist claiming that human inequality is "hard wired" and that those who are inferior can profitably be crushed and disposed of.  If you think that's not relevant to the discussion, you haven't kept up with the intersection between the neo-fascist, neo-Nazi adjacent tech bros.   All the reports and legends about the Nazis turning those they murdered into raw materials is openly advocated by some of them.

You may have noticed that the Psalm I posted yesterday and the one today correspond to the days' dates,  that's due to my reading plan of reading them, divided into two groups (don't know what I'll do when I come to the really long one, yet,  I might save it for later).  So on the first of the month I read Psalm 1 and Psalm 76, then 2 and 77 and kept going on in that order.   So I didn't have some clever idea of posting Psalms that so clearly match our present conditions, that was a consequence of the ordering in the published book.  

I have been using the Common English Bible because it is a pretty good attempt to make the meaning of the text clear,  striking a balance somewhat in that direction without abandoning good diction.   Maybe I should include the notes in the future.