Psalm 12:1 {11:1}
Good News Translation
Help us, LORD! There is not a good person left; honest people can no longer be found.

New Revised Standard Version
Help, O LORD, for there is no longer anyone who is godly; the faithful have disappeared from humankind.

Contemporary English Version
Please help me, LORD! All who were faithful and all who were loyal have disappeared.

New American Bible
For the leader; “upon the eighth.” A psalm of David. [2] Help, LORD, for no one loyal remains; the faithful have vanished from the children of men.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Unto the end: for the octave, a psalm for David. [2] Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: truths are decayed from among the children of men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Unto the end: for the octave, a psalm for David. [2] Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: truths are decayed from among the children of men.

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Psalm 6:1 Unto the end, in verses, a psalm for David, for the octave. [2] O Lord, rebuke me not in thy indignation, nor chastise me in thy wrath.

1 Chronicles 15:21 And Mathathias, and Eliphalu, and Macenias and Obededom, and Jehiel and Ozaziu, sung a song of victory for the octave upon harps.

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Psalm 3:7 For thou hast struck all them who are my adversaries without cause: thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.

Psalm 6:4 Turn to me, O Lord, and deliver my soul: O save me for thy mercy's sake.

Psalm 54:1 Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David. [2] When the men of Ziph had come and said to Saul: Is not David hidden with us? [3] Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me in thy strength.

Matthew 8:25 And they came to him, and awaked him, saying: Lord, save us, we perish.

Matthew 14:30 But seeing the wind strong, he was afraid: and when he began to sink, he cried out, saying: Lord, save me.

godly

Genesis 6:12 And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth),

Isaiah 1:9,21,22 Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha. . . .

Isaiah 57:1 The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil.

Isaiah 63:5 I looked about, and there was none to help: I sought, and there was none to give aid: and my own arm hath saved for me, and my indignation itself hath helped me.

Jeremiah 5:1 Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man that executeth judgment, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.

Micah 7:1,2 Woe is me, for I am become as one that gleaneth in autumn the grapes of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat, my soul desired the first ripe figs. . . .

Matthew 24:12 And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold.

faithful

Proverbs 20:6 Many men are called merciful: but who shall find a faithful man?

Isaiah 59:4,13-15 There is none that calleth upon justice, neither is there any one that judgeth truly: but they trust in a mere nothing, and speak vanities: they have conceived labour, and brought forth iniquity. . . .

Context
The Godly are No More
1Unto the end: for the octave, a psalm for David. [2] Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: truths are decayed from among the children of men.2They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.…
Cross References
1 Chronicles 15:21
And Mathathias, and Eliphalu, and Macenias and Obededom, and Jehiel and Ozaziu, sung a song of victory for the octave upon harps.

Proverbs 20:6
Many men are called merciful: but who shall find a faithful man?

Isaiah 57:1
The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil.

Micah 7:2
The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth his brother to death.

Psalm 11:7
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