Psalm 12:1
Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
Cross-reference
Psalm 54:1 echoes the same cry for help, but from personal enemies rather than societal decay.
Genesis 6:12 describes total corruption of all people, mirroring Psalm 12's claim that the godly have vanished.
Proverbs 20:6 asks 'a faithful person who can find?' mirroring the lament that the faithful have vanished.
Isaiah 1:9 affirms a remnant survived, contrasting with Psalm 12's lament that the faithful are gone.
Isaiah 1:21 depicts the faithful city becoming corrupt — a specific example of the vanishing faithfulness Psalm 12 laments.
Isaiah 57:1 directly parallels: the righteous perish and are taken away, echoing Psalm 12's vanishing faithful.
Isaiah 59:13-15 describes truth and righteousness gone, matching the theme of no faithful left.
Jeremiah 5:1 challenges to find even one honest person — confirming the scarcity of faithful in Psalm 12.
Micah 7:1 opens a similar lament about the scarcity of godly people, using the metaphor of gleaning with no fruit left.
Micah 7:2 directly states that the faithful have been swept from the land, echoing the same complaint.
Ecclesiastes 7:28 echoes the scarcity of upright people, finding only one among a thousand — directly paralleling the vanishing faithful.
Isaiah 59:15 describes truth absent and the righteous targeted, matching the psalmist's lament of no godly.
Habakkuk 1:3 laments widespread injustice and violence, paralleling the psalmist's cry that the faithful have vanished.
Isaiah 59:4 laments the lack of justice and integrity, similar to the absence of the faithful.
Isaiah 63:5 describes God finding no one to help — similar absence of support that Psalm 12 laments.
Matthew 24:12 describes love growing cold due to wickedness, paralleling the disappearance of faithfulness.