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Chapter 12
Psal OEB 12:1  Help, Lord, for the good are all gone, faithful people have vanished.
Psal OEB 12:2  One lies to another, speaking empty lies, with flattering lips and false hearts they speak.
Psal OEB 12:3  May the Lord cut off all the flattering lips, and the tongue that utters arrogance,
Psal OEB 12:4  they declare, “Our tongue is our strength, our allies our lips: who is lord over us?”
Psal OEB 12:5  “The poor are despoiled, and the needy are sighing; so now I will act,” the Lord declares “And place them in the safety they long for.”
Psal OEB 12:6  The words of the Lord are words that are pure, silver smelted, seven times refined.
Psal OEB 12:7  You will keep us, Lord, and guard us from this generation forever,
Psal OEB 12:8  in a world where the wicked prowl, and worthless people exalted.