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12:1  To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.
12:2  Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
12:3  May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,
12:4  those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?”
12:5  “Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the LORD; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”
12:6  The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.
12:7  You, O LORD, will keep them; you will guard us from this generation forever.
12:8  On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the children of man.