Psalms
Chapter 12
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(11)Save Us, Lord, for Loyalty Is Coming To an End 2Help us, O Lord, none of the godly are left, the faithful have vanished.
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Everyone lies; with flattering lips they speak from a double heart.
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May the Lord cut off insincere lips, every glib tongue that utters deceit.
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Many say, “Our strength lies in our tongue, we know how to speak, who can lord it over us?”
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“The poor are despoiled and the needy suffer, now I will save them,” says the Lord. “I will give them security.”
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The promises of the Lord are sure and lasting—silver refined in the furnace seven times and freed from dross.
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Hold us, O Lord, in your keeping; protect us always from this generation,
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for the wicked prowl on all sides, and the basest is exalted.