Yahweh Will Set the Needy in Safety
For the choir director. According to the● Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
Save, O Yahweh, for athe holy man ceases to be,For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.Possibly an eight-string instrument or a title for a tune, cf. 1 Chr 15:21Is 57:1; Mic 7:22 They aspeak worthlessness to one another;With a bflattering lip and with a double heart they speak.Ps 10:7; 41:6Ps 28:3; 55:21; Jer 9:8; Rom 16:183 May Yahweh 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 Yahweh; “I will cset him in the 1safety for which he 2longs.”Or salvation, cf. 12:1Lit breathesPs 9:9; 10:18Is 33:10Ps 34:6; 35:10
6 The awords of Yahweh are pure words;As silver btried in a furnace on the ground, refined seven times.2 Sam 22:31; Ps 18:30; 19:8, 10; 119:140Prov 30:57 You, O Yahweh, will keep them;You will aguard 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