Liber Psalmorum

The first book of Psalms, song 12, Vulgate and King James Version

Psalm 12

Vulgate

   1 Magistro chori. Super octavam. PSALMUS. David.
   2 Salvum me fac, Domine, quoniam defecit sanctus, quoniam deminuti sunt fideles a filiis hominum.
   3 Vana locuti sunt unusquisque ad proximum suum; in labiis dolosis, in duplici corde locuti sunt.
   4 Disperdat Dominus universa labia dolosa et linguam magniloquam.
   5 Qui dixerunt: "Lingua nostra magnificabimur, labia nostra a nobis sunt; quis noster dominus est?".
   6 "Propter miseriam inopum et gemitum pauperum, nunc exsurgam, dicit Dominus; ponam in salutari illum, quem despiciunt".
   7 Eloquia Domini eloquia casta, argentum igne examinatum, separatum a terra, purgatum septuplum.
   8 Tu, Domine, servabis nos et custodies nos a generatione hac in aeternum. In circuitu impii ambulant, cum exaltantur sordes inter filios hominum.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.

   1 Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
   2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
   3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
   4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
   5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
   6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
   7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
   8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.