I must submit that the text here concerns the scriptures being "forever." That cannot be said for the godly who are at a time of scarcity and have suffered for even a long time. Endurance though is a long time yet has its limitations and it can not be said of that. The word, the scripture is!
Initially, I was was open to both interpretations as possibilities.
In Psalms 12:6-7 (KJV), the immediate context seems to focus primarily on the preservation of God's words:
Psalms 12:6-7 (KJV)
"The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever."
Verse 6 emphasizes the purity and trustworthiness of God’s words, they are refined and without flaw. Verse 7 then speaks of God keeping and preserving "them," which grammatically refers back to "the words of the Lord" from verse 6. So by the immediate context, it as an affirmation of God's commitment to preserving His words across generations. So I agree with this interpretation.
As you know, the Modern Bibles distort "them" in the KJV and makes it about the people and not the words. After discovering more of the darkness in the Modern Bible Movement recently, and reading the chapter again several times, I am now considering in abandoning the interpretation that suggests "them" is referring to both the people and the words being preserved. God will most certainly protect His saints (as the chapter says), but it is not the same as the keeping of His words like here on Earth. I do believe that the moment God provided Scripture for mankind, there was always an uncorrupted form of it since its origination until today. I believe the King James Bible is the perfect words of God in English. But men try to attack God's Word. Some, like Mark Ward have even said it is a sin to give a KJV to a child (Which is crazy bonkers nonsense). You can check out his admittance to such insanity in this recent KJV debate here:
Anyway, thank you for challenging me on this passage. It is good we always relook at Scripture again, and again, and again with a fresh pair of eyes with God's help.
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