1. For the director. On the eight-tone scale. A psalm by David.
2. Help, YHWH! For the loyal one has disappeared;
for faithful ones have vanished from among humanity.
3. They speak falsehood, each with his neighbour;
with flattering lips, with duplicity they speak.
4. May YHWH exterminate all flattering lips,
[every] tongue speaking great things,
5. [all] who have said, “We can speak boldly;
Our lips are under our control; who is our master?”
6. “Because afflicted ones are devastated, because poor ones groan,
now I will rise up,” says YHWH.
“I will place in safety the one for whom someone sets traps.”
7. YHWH’s words are pure words,
silver refined in a furnace on the ground,
purified seven times over.
8. You, YHWH, will guard them;
You will protect him from the generation which is forever.
9. Wicked ones roam around
when vileness is esteemed among humans.
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