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1 Save us, LORD, for the faithful are gone;
the loyal have vanished from humankind.
2 They speak falsehood to one another;
with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
3 May the LORD cut off every flattering lip and every tongue that speaks boastfully,
4 those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail;
our lips are our own.
Who is lord over us?”
5 “Because the poor are oppressed and the needy groan, I will now rise up,” says the LORD.
“I will give safety to the one who longs for it.”
6 The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times.
7 You, LORD, will guard them;
you will protect him from this generation forever.
8 The wicked prowl on every side when vileness is exalted among humankind.