To Him that presides on the Sheminith, a Psalm of David.
1. Save, JEHOVAH, for the godly is come to an end: for the faithful have disappeared from among the sons of man.
2. They speak vanity, a man with his neighbour: with a smooth lip, with a double heart, do they speak.
3. JEHOVAH will cut off all smooth lips, the tongue that speaks great things;
4. Those who say, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is LORD over us?
5. Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the groaning of the needy, now will I arise, says JEHOVAH: I will place in safety him whom they treat with scorn.
6. The sayings of JEHOVAH are pure sayings, as silver refined in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7. You, JEHOVAH, will keep them, you will preserve us, from this generation for ever.
8. The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest of the sons of man are exalted.
