Help, for the Godly are No More

For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David.

¹ Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases.
For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
² Everyone lies to his neighbor.
They speak with flattering lips and with a double heart.
³ May the Lord cut off all flattering lips
and the tongue that boasts,
⁴ who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail.
Our lips are our own.
Who is lord over us?”

⁵ “Because of the oppression of the weak
and because of the groaning of the needy,
I will now arise,” says the Lord;
“I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

⁶ The words of the Lord are flawless words,
as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
⁷ You will keep them, Lord.
You will preserve them from this generation forever.
⁸ The wicked walk on every side,
when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.

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