1 Help, Yahweh, for the godly have disappeared;

the faithful have vanished.

2 Everyone says empty words to his neighbor;

everyone speaks with flattering lips and a double heart.

3 Yahweh, cut off all flattering lips,

every tongue declaring great things.

4 These are those who have said, “With our tongues will we prevail.

When our lips speak, who can be master over us?”

5 “Because of violence against the poor, because of the groans of the needy,

I will arise,” says Yahweh.

“I will provide the safety for which they long.”

6 The words of Yahweh are pure words,

like silver purified in a furnace on the earth,

refined seven times.

7 You are Yahweh! You keep them.

You preserve the godly people from this wicked generation and forever.

8 The wicked walk on every side

when evil is exalted among the children of mankind.