God, a Helper against the Treacherous.
For the choir director; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David.
Help, Lord, for athe godly man ceases to be,
For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.
2 They aspeak falsehood to one another;
With bflattering lips and with a double heart they speak.
3 May the Lord cut off all flattering lips,
The tongue that aspeaks great things;
4 Who ahave said, “With our tongue we will prevail;
Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?”
5 “Because of the adevastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,
Now bI will arise,” says the Lord; “I will cset him in the safety for which he longs.”
6 The awords of the Lord are pure words;
As silver btried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times.
7 You, O Lord, will keep them;
You will apreserve him from this generation forever.
8 The awicked strut about on every side
When bvileness is exalted among the sons of men.
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