12:1 This is a song that David wrote for the music leader. Lord, please help me! All the good people have gone away! No kind or faithful people remain.
12:2 Everybody tells lies to one another. When they say nice things, they do it to deceive their friends.
12:3 Lord, please shut their mouths! When they deceive people or they boast, stop them doing that!
12:4 They say: ‘Nobody can tell us what to do! We will say what we like to get what we want!’
12:5 But the Lord says: ‘Now I will do something! I know the cruel things that wicked people do to poor people. When weak people cry with pain, I hear them. So I will make them safe, as they want me to do for them.’
12:6 The Lord's promises are true. We can trust them, because they are pure. They are as pure as silver that people have put in a hot fire seven times.
12:7 Yes Lord, you will take care of the poor people. You will always keep each one of them safe from all those evil people.
12:8 But if people praise evil things, then wicked people will boast more and more.
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