12 Save, O Yahweh, for the pious have ceased to be;
for the faithful have vanished
from among the children of humankind.
² They speak falseness to each other.^[c]
With flattering lips,
with a double heart^[d] they speak.
³ May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips,
the tongue speaking great boasts—
⁴ those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail.
Our lips are on our side.
Who is master over us?”
⁵ “Because of the oppression of the afflicted,
because of the groaning of the poor,
now I will rise up,” Yahweh says.
“I shall put them in the safety for which they^[e] long.”
⁶ The words of Yahweh are pure words
like silver refined in the crucible on the ground,
refined seven times.
⁷ You, O Yahweh, will protect them.
You will preserve him^[f]
from this generation always.
⁸ The wicked prowl about
when vileness is exalted among the children of humankind.