Psalm 12—Our shepherd neither sleeps nor slumbers.

"O God of words, silence the tongues that wag before you..."

Rendition of Psalm 12

The good are gone, Lord.
The faithful who carry
The candle of your name
Have fled. I looked for them
And found only smoke rising.
Everyone left lies;
They flatter their fellows
Only to devour them like wolves.
They scheme and bite 
And trumpet the very things 
That should make them mourn
And change their lives.
Save us.
O God of words,
Silence the tongues 
That wag before you,
As though the world before our eyes
Were the only world. 

“I have seen the poor plundered,”
Says the Lord. “I have heard
The groans beyond words.
I know the grief that bends you double.
I have felt the lash
And rack of the wicked.
So now I will bring the broken home,
And place them in the shelter
They long for.”
These are the words of the Lord.
There is no dross in them,
Only holy silver.

Lord, your remnant is not lost.
Though the wolves bound around us
Like wind whipping the edges of the flock,
Our shepherd neither sleeps nor slumbers.

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Catching up with the Darkling Psalter

If you are new to the Darkling Psalter, it is a project to create renditions of the Psalms (artistic rewordings based on the original Hebrew) paired with original poems.

Psalms with poems: 1, 2, 6, 8, 13, 14, 16, 19, 22, 29, 31, 32, 34, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 51, 53, 65, 73, 74, 84, 86, 88, 90, 107, 118, 121, 123, 130, 131, 137, 142, 147.

Psalms only: 3, 4, 5, 9, 23, 27, 43, 50, 54, 62, 63, 66, 75, 91, 100, 110, 114, 117, 119, 120, 122, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 132, 133, 134, 139, 140, 148

Psalms complete: 71/150—47%

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