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1
Help, Yahweh, for the faithful ones have disappeared;
those who have integrity have vanished from the children of men.
2
Everyone says empty words to his neighbor;
everyone speaks with flattering lips and a double heart.
3
Yahweh, cut off all flattering lips,
every tongue declaring great things.
4
These are those who have said, "With our tongues we will prevail.
When our lips speak, who can be master over us?"
5
"Because of violence against the poor, because of the groans of the needy,
I will arise," says Yahweh.
"I will provide the safety for which they long."
6
The words of Yahweh are pure words,
like silver purified in a furnace on the earth,
refined seven times.
7
You are Yahweh! You keep them.
You preserve the godly people from this wicked generation and forever.
8
The wicked walk on every side
when evil is exalted among the children of mankind.