Psalms
(Of the Director; bass voices; a psalm of David’s.)
12 Save, Jehovah, because godly men have disappeared,
because all is over with reliability among mankind.
2 They talk make-believes to each other,
talk with slippery lips and double heart.
3 Jehovah will exterminate slippery lips,
tongues that make great propositions,
4 Men that say “With our tongues we shall do bravely;
we have our lips with us, who is sovereign over us?”
5 For violence to men in want, for needy men’s groaning,
now I will stand up, says Jehovah,
will set in salvation who pants for that.
7 You, Jehovah, will guard them,
will keep them for this generation and forever.
8 Wrong-doers walk about on all sides
when shabbiness stands high for mankind.