Psalm Sandwich - Politicians

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Psalm 12: 1-4

Help, O Lord, for there is no longer anyone who is godly; the faithful have disappeared from humankind.

They utter lies to each other; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

May the Lord cut off all their flattering lips, the tongues that make great boasts;

those who say, "With our tongues we will prevail; our lips are our own - who is our master?"

 (The New Oxford Annotated Bible)

Dear Lord, will they not stop their bleating rhetoric; 

have their morals gone down to dwell with the worms?

They lie to themselves, to their constituents to each other; 

their double faces are too numerous to number.

They need their lips and their tongues

but could we not give them a smidge of humbleness and integrity.

Maybe just a dead fish under their front seat to remind them who is their Maker?

(Sunrise Sister)

Psalm 12: 1-4

Quick, God, I need your helping hand! The last decent person just went down, All the friends I depended on gone. Everyone talks in lie language;  Lies slide off their oily lips. They doubletalk with forked tongues.   

Slice their lips off their faces! Pull the braggart tongues from their mouths! 

I'm tired of hearing, "We can talk anyone into anything! Our lips manage the world."

(The Message - Eugene Peterson)