Psalms12NASB2020
God, a Helper against the Treacherous.
For the music director; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David.
1Help, LORD, for the godly person has come to an end, For the faithful have disappeared from the sons of mankind.2They speak lies to one another; They speak with flattering lips and a double heart.3May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaks great things;4Who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail; Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?”5“Because of the devastation of the poor, because of the groaning of the needy, Now I will arise,” says the LORD; “I will put him in the safety for which he longs.” 6The words of the LORD are pure words;Like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, filtered seven times.7You, LORD, will keep them; You will protect him from this generation forever.8The wicked strut about on every side When vileness is exalted among the sons of mankind.
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