For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David.
1
Help, YHVH; for the godly man ceases.
For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
2
Everyone lies to his neighbor.
They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
3
May YHVH cut off all flattering lips,
and the tongue that boasts,
4
who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail.
Our lips are our own.
Who is lord over us?”
5
“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy,
I will now arise,” says YHVH;
“I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
6
YHVH’s words are flawless words,
as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
7
You will keep them, YHVH.
You will preserve them from this generation forever.
8
The wicked walk on every side,
when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.