| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New Living Translation |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by an eight-stringed instrument. Help, O LORD, for the godly are fast disappearing! The faithful have vanished from the earth! |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Neighbors lie to each other, speaking with flattering lips and deceitful hearts. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3May the LORD cut off their flattering lips and silence their boastful tongues. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They say, "We will lie to our hearts' content. Our lips are our own--who can stop us?" |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The LORD replies, "I have seen violence done to the helpless, and I have heard the groans of the poor. Now I will rise up to rescue them, as they have longed for me to do." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The LORD's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Therefore, LORD, we know you will protect the oppressed, preserving them forever from this lying generation, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8even though the wicked strut about, and evil is praised throughout the land. |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright ©1996, 2004, 2007.
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