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20 lines
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Markdown
# Chapter 12
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1 Help, O Lord, for the godly are fast disappearing!
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The faithful have vanished from the earth!
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2 Neighbors lie to each other,
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speaking with flattering lips and deceitful hearts.
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3 May the Lord cut off their flattering lips
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and silence their boastful tongues.
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4 They say, “We will lie to our hearts’ content.
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Our lips are our own—who can stop us?”
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5 The Lord replies, “I have seen violence done to the helpless,
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and I have heard the groans of the poor.
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Now I will rise up to rescue them,
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as they have longed for me to do.”
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6 The Lord’s promises are pure,
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like silver refined in a furnace,
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purified seven times over.
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7 Therefore, Lord, we know you will protect the oppressed,
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preserving them forever from this lying generation,
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8 even though the wicked strut about,
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and evil is praised throughout the land. |