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1 Help, Yahweh, for the faithful ones have disappeared; those who have integrity have vanished from the children of men.
2 Everyone says empty words to his neighbor; everyone speaks with flattering lips and a double heart.
3 Yahweh, cut off all flattering lips, every tongue declaring great things.
4 These are those who have said, “With our tongues will we prevail. When our lips speak, who can be master over us?”
5 “Because of violence against the poor, because of the groans of the needy, I will arise,” says Yahweh. “I will provide the safety for which they long.”
6 The words of Yahweh are pure words, like silver purified in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times.
7 You are Yahweh! You keep them. You preserve the godly people from this wicked generation and forever.
8 The wicked walk on every side when evil is exalted among the children of mankind.
The Book of Psalms