Psalm

Psalm

1. Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases!  For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.  (Is. 57:1)
2. They speak idly everyone with his neighbour  (Ps. 10:7);  with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.  (Ps. 28:3;   Ps. 144:8;   Prov. 7:21)
3. May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things,  (James 3:5)
4. Who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own; who is lord over us?"
5. "For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now I will arise," says the Lord; "I will set him in the safety for which he yearns."
6. The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth,  (2 Sam. 22:31;   Ps. 18:30)  purified seven times.
7. You shall keep them, O Lord, You shall preserve them from this generation forever.
8. The wicked prowl on every side, when vileness is exalted among the sons of men.