kjv@Psalms:12:2@ They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double [Heart] do they speak.
kjv@Psalms:12:3@ The [Lord] shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
kjv@Psalms:12:4@ Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is [Lord] over us?
kjv@Psalms:12:5@ 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.
David being a king (or a soon to be king) would have been in a position to see the inner workings of the wicked. At times it must have felt that he was all alone and that his numbers were fading. It is an elites notion "who will lord over us" as if they will lord over us. Flattering lips and double heart, their ends justify their means. When the power base is in their hands the vilest men are exalted. It is a system, a network, a power, a principality that the psalmists struggles against even within chosen Israel.
Logistically and strategically Israel should not have existed to the extent it did. They were a people that was not a people beforehand. They grew and flourished like no other. Their numbers would not have kept them whole if not for the Lord. It should be obvious that His hand was upon them. When it was not they quickly realized it.
We tend to personalize/individualize these verses. The trust spoken of is in the larger scale of His overall plan and His actions upon entire bodies such as the church and nations. The righteous and upright are plural and a force of His moving and shaping. From that we individually are more justly effected.
Notice here that the weeping are not just holding still, they are planting; and that even in captivity. It is too easy just to give up, leave, clam up, wait, go a defeated direction. Those that don't plant during these times are missing out on a joyful harvest.
I am seeing this as a blessing of God to the individual believer and it revolves around being to eat the fruit of your own hands. There is a blessing of sustaining and protection and multiplication here allowing one to plant and to be able to see and partake of the return. If your hands have not planted there probably wouldn't be all that much to eat but, then none of us really plant as much as we eat. We know that there is a multiplication at work even for us. The man who fears God will plant. Wife and children will be a blessing, grand children and peace upon Israel. What I am considering is a general blessing, for not everyone will see this. Some brothers will die valiantly for us in war, Jerusalem may not even be occupied or obedient, enemies may at once amass along the borders of Israel. But, in a spiritual sense, in a general sense, in a sense we may not have even considered God will bless every man that fears him.
Who is saying this? Israel. Makes me wonder how many of these other psalms were as the voice of Israel and perhaps not so much the voice of any one individual. If so, the thing of immediate interest is that it was not the forces from without that took Israel down, but, the forces within.
It must be humbling when ones captors request to hear one of your hymns as if to rub your face in the fact that they are taking you back to their land to make you slaves. It drives home the fact that you've let a good thing go. Had they listened to God, had they returned their hearts from their false gods, had they obeyed it may not have come to this. But it has, and there naturally is bitterness towards these captors. Really though God's mercy from kjv@Psalms:123 is still at work in a reproving fashion. We should not be so hardened as to allow it to come to this.
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