Help, Jehovah; for the godly man ceaseth; For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

For lack of wood the fire goeth out; And where there is no whisperer, contention ceaseth.

Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nought, destruction ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scoffer ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off;

The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: the enemy hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth not man.

Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the baker; he ceaseth to stir the fire , from the kneading of the dough, until it be leavened.

and set up false witnesses, who said, This man ceaseth not to speak words against this holy place, and the law: