Help, LORD, for athe godly man ceases to be, For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.
2They aspeak 1falsehood to one another; With bflattering 2lips and with a double heart they speak.
3May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that aspeaks great things;
4Who ahave said, "With our tongue we will prevail; Our lips are 1our 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."
6The awords of the LORD are pure words; As silver btried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times.
7You, O LORD, will keep them; You will apreserve him from this generation forever.
8The awicked strut about on every side When 1 bvileness is exalted among the sons of men.