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Psalm 12

1Help, O LORD, for the godly are no more; the faithful have vanished from among men.
1Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
2They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
2Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
3May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.
3May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,
4They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”
4who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”
5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
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.”
6The words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.
6The LORD’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
7You, O LORD, will keep us; You will forever guard us from this generation.
7You will keep them, LORD. You will preserve them from this generation forever.
8The wicked wander freely, and vileness is exalted among men.
8The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.