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For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David [Beloved].
Context: After collecting Goliath [Exposer, Uncovered]’s sword and leaving the priests, David [Beloved] runs upon hearing the message about the priests being slaughtered. (1 Sam 22 (esp. 22:20-23))
1 Help, Adonai ; for the godly man ceases.
For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
2 Everyone lies to his neighbor.
They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
3 May Adonai cut off all flattering lips,
and the tongue that boasts,
4 who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail.
Our lips are our own.
Who is lord over us?”
5 “Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy,
I will now arise,” says Adonai ;
“I will set him in yesha' ·salvation· far from those who malign him.”
6 Adonai ’s words are flawless words,
as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
7 You will keep them, Adonai .
You will preserve them from this generation forever.
8 The wicked walk on every side,
when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.