To the chief musician on sheminith, a psalm of David
12
📚✭✭Help, LORD,for the godly man ceases,
for the faithful fail from
among the children of men.
2 📚Everyone speaks vanity
with his neighbour.
They speak with flattering lips
and with a double heart.
3 📚The LORD will cut off✭
all flattering lips,
and the tongue
that speaks proud things,
4 📚that 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 poor,
because of the sighing
of the needy,
I will now arise”,
says the LORD,
“I will set him in safety
from the one who
snorts at him”.
6 📚✭The words of the LORD are
pure words,
like silver refined
in a furnace of earth,
purified seven times.
7 📚✭You will keep them, O LORD,
you will preserve them from this
generation forever.
8 📚The wicked walk about
on every side,
when the vilest men are exalted.