When God inspired David to write Psalm 12, I imagine He was thinking ahead to the many, many events inwards history to which it would apply.
"Help, LORD, for the godly homo ceases to last ... The wicked strut nigh on every side when vileness is exalted alongside the sons of men" (verse 1,8).
Left to our ain "wisdom," nosotros decline God's loving warnings in addition to slide deeper into sin (Romans 1:16-32).
Our electrical flow civilisation oftentimes calls God's commands "stupid," "unrealistic," "out-of-date," in addition to fifty-fifty "hateful" no affair how lovingly nosotros talk them. Our civilisation wants us to honour in addition to accolade things which God calls sinful (verse 4).
But God's Word doesn't involve man's approval.
"The words of the LORD are pure words; As silvery tried inwards a furnace on the earth, refined 7 times" (verse 6).
Man's wisdom devolves; God's Word stands firm. Let's stand upwardly on what is forever firm.
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