those who say,
    ‘By our tongues we will prevail;
    our own lips will defend us – who is lord over us?’

‘Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan,
    I will now arise,’ says the Lord.
    ‘I will protect them from those who malign them.’
And the words of the Lord are flawless,
    like silver purified in a crucible,
    like gold[a] refined seven times.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 12:6 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text earth