Psalm 12:6 And the words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace of clay, purified seven times.
Psalm 12 is again brief and For the director of music and not just "of David" but A psalm of David. Between those latter statements is the phrase According to sheminith which must be some sort of musical direction. David is again praying for help from God in the face of attacks from his enemies at a time when the godly are no more and the faithful have vanished from among men. There is much lying and boasting and rebellion but David prays that the LORD will cut off such lips. He pictures the LORD reacting and coming to protect the weak and needy. In verse 7 he says confidently that the LORD will keep us safe and protect us from such people for ever. This confidence is tempered by the observation (8) that The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honoured among men. Nevertheless, he is sure that the LORD is faithful. When the LORD says he will arise, he will arise. The root of this confidence is revealed in verse 6. It is to do with the quality of the Word of God. When the LORD says he will do something, he really will because his words are indeed flawless and totally reliable. David uses a picture to reinforce how confident he is in the Word of God. It is like silver, very precious, and the very best silver. The silver has been refined in a furnace of clay. It has been purified seven times over, seven being the number of completeness. Do we have a similar confidence in God's Word? We really can trust it without a doubt. That means that we can be confident about the future, therefore. The LORD will keep us and protect us and all his promises can be trusted. Success is a matter only of trusting what God says despite the opposition from the world, the flesh and the devil.
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