PSALM 12
We have here the discovery of the wickedness of man among the Jews, when righteousness was looked for — see Ecclesiastes 3:16; Romans, and Isaiah 5. It seems here to have risen to pride and oppression, and left poverty of spirit even there; therefore “Blessed are the poor in spirit”; there was a tribe for this, in Jesus — Matthew 5, the beatitudes are Himself, and thus open these Psalms.
— 6. The word of God is presented as a resting-place.
This Psalm, I think, applies to, or specially includes the professors within — the nominal associates in the same hope,
[p. 69] but who were really not of God’s children. It is the complaint of the godly man as to the state of things around him in Zion itself; he would not have wondered at there being no godly ones amongst those who were without.