Psalm 12:8 {11:9}
New Revised Standard Version
On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among humankind.

Contemporary English Version
But all who are wicked will keep on strutting, while everyone praises their shameless deeds.

New American Bible
On every side the wicked roam; the shameless are extolled by the children of men.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The wicked walk round about: according to thy highness, thou hast multiplied the children of men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The wicked walk round about: according to thy highness, thou hast multiplied the children of men.

wicked

Proverbs 29:12 A prince that gladly heareth lying words, hath all his servants wicked.

Hosea 5:11 Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he began to go after filthiness.

Micah 6:16 For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked according their wills, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, and you shall bear the reproach of my people.

when

Judges 9:18 And you are now risen up against my father's house, and have killed his sons, seventy men, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his handmaid, king over the inhabitants of Sichem, because he is your brother:

1 Samuel 18:17,18 And Saul said to David: Behold my elder daughter Merob, her will I give thee to wife: only be a valiant man, and fight the battles of the Lord. Now Saul said within himself: Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hands of the Philistines be upon him. . . .

Esther 3:6 And he counted it nothing to lay his hands upon Mardochai alone: for he had heard that he was of the nation of the Jews, and he chose rather to destroy all the nation of the Jews that were in the kingdom of Assuerus.

Isaiah 32:4-6 And the heart of fools shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of stammerers shall speak readily and plain. . . .

Mark 14:63-65 Then the high priest rending his garments, saith: What need we any further witnesses? . . .

men.

Job 30:8 The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.

Daniel 11:21 And there shall stand up in his place one despised, and the kingly honour shall not be given him: and he shall come privately, and shall obtain the kingdom by fraud.

Context
The Godly are No More
7Thou, O Lord, wilt preserve us: and keep us from this generation for ever. 8The wicked walk round about: according to thy highness, thou hast multiplied the children of men.
Cross References
Psalm 55:10
Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are labour,

Psalm 55:11
And injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its streets.

Isaiah 32:5
The fool shall no more be called prince: neither shall the deceitful be called great:

Psalm 12:7
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