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          DASV: Psalm 12    

For the music director, according to The Sheminith.
A psalm of David.

1 Help, O LORD, for anyone who is godly is gone;
     the faithful have vanished from the human race.
2 Each person tells lies to his neighbor;
     they speak with a flattering lip and a deceptive heart.
3 The LORD will cut off all flattering lips,
     the tongue that speaks boastful things.
4 Those who say, "With our tongue we will prevail;
     our lips are our own, who is lord over us?"

5 "Because of the violence done to the poor,
     because of the sighing of the needy,
      I will arise," says the LORD,
     "I will set him in the safety for which he longs."
6 The words of the LORD are pure;
     as silver fired in a furnace on the ground,
            purified seven times.

7 You will keep them, O LORD;
     you will protect them from this generation forever.
8 The wicked walk around everywhere,
     when vileness is exalted among humanity.

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