4. those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail,our lips are with us; who is master over us?”
5. “Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord;“I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”
6. The words of the Lord are pure words,like silver refined in a furnace on the ground,purified seven times.
7. You, O Lord, will keep them;you will guard us from this generation forever.
8. On every side the wicked prowl,as vileness is exalted among the children of man.