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When Everyone's Lying.

Psalms 12 — When flattery is everywhere and only one voice has zero spin

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📢 Chapter 12 — When Everyone's Lying 🗣️

Have you ever had that moment where you look around and think — does anyone just say what they actually mean anymore? That's where is in this . Not frustrated with one person. Frustrated with the entire landscape. The honest people seem to have vanished, and all that's left is spin.

It's a short psalm — just eight verses — but the arc is stunning. David starts in despair, God breaks in with a , and by the end you're staring at the sharpest contrast in the whole book: human words versus God's words. And it's not even close.

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When Honesty Goes Extinct 🔇

opened with a plea — raw, urgent, no warmup. He looked around at the world and felt like the last honest person in the room:

"Save us, Lord — the faithful are gone. Honest people have disappeared from the earth.

Everyone lies to their neighbor. Flattering lips, double hearts — that's all that's left.

May the Lord cut off every flattering tongue, every mouth that makes grand boasts —

those who say, 'Our words are our weapon. Our lips belong to us — who can tell us what to say?'"

That last line is the one to sit with. "Who is master over us?" It's not just arrogance — it's a declaration of total autonomy. My words, my platform, my narrative. Nobody gets to hold me accountable for what comes out of my mouth.

Sound familiar? We live in a world where people curate entire personas built on carefully constructed half-truths. Where flattery is a strategy, not a compliment. Where saying what people want to hear will always get you further than saying what's actually true. David wasn't describing ancient history. He was describing right now.

Then God Speaks ⚡

Right in the middle of all that noise — God's voice. No introduction. No buildup. Just a sudden, decisive statement. The Lord said:

"Because the poor are being crushed, because the needy are crying out — I will rise up now. I will place them in the safety they've been longing for."

Catch that word: now. Not eventually. Not "I'll get around to it." Now. God heard the groaning of people who couldn't spin their way out of trouble — who didn't have the platform or the connections or the flattering words — and he moved. The liars were loud. The vulnerable were quiet. And God responded to the quiet ones.

That tells you something about what gets God's attention. It's not the best argument. It's not the loudest voice. It's the honest cry of someone who has nothing left to leverage.

Words That Actually Hold Up 💎

Now drew the contrast — and it's one of the most vivid images in all the . Human words: lies, flattery, manipulation. God's words:

"The words of the Lord are pure — like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over.

You, Lord, will keep your promises. You will protect us from this generation forever."

Seven times purified. Not once. Not twice. Seven — the number of completion. There is nothing impure left. No hidden agenda, no double meaning, no spin. When God says something, there's not a trace of manipulation in it. Every syllable holds up under pressure.

Then David ended with a sobering look around:

"The wicked still prowl on every side, and what's vile is celebrated by everyone."

And that's where the psalm leaves you — not in some neat resolution, but in the tension. God's words are completely pure. The world is still completely noisy. Both things are true at the same time. The liars haven't disappeared. The wicked are still circling. But you know whose words to build your life on. And it's not the loudest voice in the room.