Human Faithlessness and God’s Faithfulness
For the music director; on the Sheminith.Meaning uncertain A psalm of David.The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one
1 Save, O Yahweh, for the pious have ceased to be;
for the faithful have vanished
from among the children of humankind.
2 They speak falseness to each other.Literally "each with his companion"
With flattering lips,
with a double heartLiterally "a heart and a heart" they speak.
3 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips,
the tongue speaking great boasts—
4 those who say, "With our tongue we will prevail.
Our lips are on our side.
Who is master over us?"
5 "Because of the oppression of the afflicted,
because of the groaning of the poor,
now I will rise up," Yahweh says.
"I shall put them in the safety for which theyHebrew "he" long."
6 The words of Yahweh are pure words
like silver refined in the crucible on the ground,
refined seven times.
7 You, O Yahweh, will protect them.
You will preserve himOr "us"
from this generation always.
8 The wicked prowl about
when vileness is exalted among the children of humankind.
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