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| 1 | Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? how long dost thou turn away thy face from me? | Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. |
| 2 | How long shall I take counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart all the day? | They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. |
| 3 | How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? | The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: |
| 4 | Consider, and hear me, O Lord my God. Enlighten my eyes that I never sleep in death: | Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? |
| 5 | lest at any time my enemy say: I have prevailed against him. They that trouble me will rejoice when I am moved: | For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. |
| 6 | but I have trusted in thy mercy. My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation: I will sing to the Lord, who giveth me good things: yea I will sing to the name of the Lord the most high. | The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. |
| 7 | Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. | |
| 8 | The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted. |