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God, a Helper against the Treacherous.
For the choir director; AOr according to a lower octave (Heb Sheminith)upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David.
1 Help, Loʀᴅ, for AIs 57:1; Mic 7:2the godly man ceases to be,
For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.
With BPs 28:3; 55:21; Jer 9:8; Rom 16:18flattering 2Lit liplips and with a double heart they speak.
3 May the Loʀᴅ cut off all flattering lips,
The tongue that ADan 7:8; Rev 13:5speaks great things;
4 Who APs 73:8, 9have said, “With our tongue we will prevail;
Our lips are 1Lit with usour own; who is lord over us?”
5 “Because of the APs 9:9; 10:18devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,
Now BIs 33:10I will arise,” says the Loʀᴅ; “I will CPs 34:6; 35:10set him in the safety for which he longs.”
6 The A2 Sam 22:31; Ps 18:30; 19:8, 10; 119:140words of the Loʀᴅ are pure words;
As silver BProv 30:5tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times.
7 You, O Loʀᴅ, will keep them;
You will APs 37:28; 97:10preserve him from this generation forever.
8 The APs 55:10, 11wicked strut about on every side
When 1Or worthlessnessBIs 32:5vileness is exalted among the sons of men.