The Book of PsalmsPsalm 11
The Catholic Public Domain Version numbers the Psalms as the Latin Vulgate does. In Bibles translated from the Hebrew this is Psalm 12. Read Psalm 12 in the WEBC.
11Unto the end. For the octave. A Psalm of David.
2Save me, O Lord, because holiness has passed away, because truths have been diminished, before the sons of men.
3They have been speaking emptiness, each one to his neighbor; they have been speaking with deceitful lips and a duplicitous heart.
4May the Lord scatter all deceitful lips, along with the tongue that speaks malice.
5They have said: “We will magnify our tongue; our lips belong to us. Who is our Lord?”
6Because of the misery of the destitute and the groaning of the poor, now I will arise, says the Lord. I will place him in safety. I will act faithfully toward him.
7The eloquence of the Lord is pure eloquence, silver tested by fire, purged from the earth, refined seven times.
8You, O Lord, will preserve us, and you will guard us from this generation into eternity.
9The impious wander aimlessly. According to your loftiness, you have multiplied the sons of men.