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Human Faithlessness and God’s Faithfulness
12 For the music director; on the Sheminith.a A psalm of David.b
1 Save, O Yahweh, for the pious have ceased to be;
for the faithful have vanished
from among the children of humankind.
2 They speak falseness ⌊to each other⌋.c
With flattering lips,
with ⌊a double heart⌋d they speak.
3 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips,
the tongue speaking great boasts—
4 those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail.
Our lips are on our side.
Who is master over us?”
5 “Because of the oppression of the afflicted,
because of the groaning of the poor,
now I will rise up,” Yahweh says.
“I shall put them in the safety for which theye long.”
6 The words of Yahweh are pure words
like silver refined in the crucible on the ground,
refined seven times.
7 You, O Yahweh, will protect them.
You will preserve himf
from this generation always.
when vileness is exalted among the children of humankind.
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