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Chapter 12
Psal LEB 12:1  Save, O Yahweh, for the pious have ceased to be; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of humankind.
Psal LEB 12:2  They speak falseness ⌞to each other⌟. With flattering lips, with ⌞a double heart⌟ they speak.
Psal LEB 12:3  May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, the tongue speaking great boasts—
Psal LEB 12:4  those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are on our side. Who is master over us?”
Psal LEB 12:5  “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 they long.”
Psal LEB 12:6  The words of Yahweh are pure words like silver refined in the crucible on the ground, refined seven times.
Psal LEB 12:7  You, O Yahweh, will protect them. You will preserve him from this generation always.
Psal LEB 12:8  The wicked prowl about when vileness is exalted among the children of humankind.