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Chapter 12

The Faithful Have Vanished

To The CHOIRMASTER: ACCCORDING TO THE SHEMINITH. A PSALM OF DAVID.

1 Save, O Lord, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.

2 Everyone utters lies to his neighbour; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

3 May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,

those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?”

5 “ Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “ I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”

The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

7 You, O Lord, will keep them; you will guard us from this generation for ever.

On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the children of man. 

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