
# Chapter 12
1. Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases!
For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.

2. They speak idly everyone with his neighbor;
With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

3. May the Lord cut off all flattering lips,
And the tongue that speaks proud things,

4. Who have said,
"With our tongue we will prevail;
Our lips are our own;
Who is lord over us?"

5. "For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy,
Now I will arise," says the Lord;
"I will set him in the safety for which he yearns."

6. The words of the Lord are pure words,
Like silver tried in a furnace of earth,
Purified seven times.

7. You shall keep them, O Lord,
You shall preserve them from this generation forever.

8. The wicked prowl on every side,
When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.


