God, a Helper against the Treacherous.
For the choir director;● upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David.
Help, LORD, for athe godly man ceases to be,For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.Or according to a lower octave (Heb Sheminith)Is 57:1; Mic 7:22 They aspeak 1falsehood to one another;With bflattering 2lips and with a double heart they speak.Or emptinessLit lipPs 10:7; 41:6Ps 28:3; 55:21; Jer 9:8; Rom 16:183 May the LORD cut off all flattering lips,The tongue that aspeaks great things;Dan 7:8; Rev 13:54 Who ahave said, “With our tongue we will prevail;Our lips are 1our own; who is lord over us?”Lit with usPs 73:8, 95 “Because of the adevastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,Now bI will arise,” says the LORD; “I will cset him in the safety for which he longs.”Ps 9:9; 10:18Is 33:10Ps 34:6; 35:10
6 The awords of the LORD are pure words;As silver btried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times.2 Sam 22:31; Ps 18:30; 19:8, 10; 119:140Prov 30:57 You, O LORD, will keep them;You will apreserve him from this generation forever.Ps 37:28; 97:108 The awicked strut about on every sideWhen 1bvileness is exalted among the sons of men.Or worthlessnessPs 55:10, 11Is 32:5