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Psalms 12:1

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Help: or, Save, Psalms 3:7, Psalms 6:4, Psalms 54:1; Matthew 8:25, Matthew 14:30

godly: Genesis 6:12; Isaiah 1:9, Isaiah 1:21-22, Isaiah 57:1, Isaiah 63:5; Jeremiah 5:1; Micah 7:1-2; Matthew 24:12

faithful: Proverbs 20:6; Isaiah 59:4, Isaiah 59:13-15

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