(12) For the end, A Psalm of David, upon the eighth.
1Save me, O Lord; for the godly man has failed; for 1 truth is diminished from among the children of men.
2Every one has spoken vanity to his neighbor: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart.
3Let the Lord destroy all the deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaks great words:
4who have said, We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own: who is Lord of us?
5Because of the misery of the poor, and because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the Lord, I will set them in safety; I will speak to them thereof openly.
6The oracles of the Lord are pure oracles; as silver tried in the fire, proved in 2 a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7You, O Lord, shall keep us, and shall preserve us, from this generation, and for ever.
8The ungodly walk around: according to your greatness you have greatly exalted the sons of men.
- Gr. truths are become rare
- Gr. the earth.
Text: the Septuagint in the translation of Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton (1851), revised in American English by Michael Paul Johnson (LXX2012). Public domain. The Old Testament of the Eastern Orthodox Bible is in preparation.
