1. Help us, Lord!There is not a good person left;honest people can no longer be found.
2. All of them lie to one another;they deceive each other with flattery.
3. Silence those flattering tongues, O Lord!Close those boastful mouths that say,
4. “With our words we get what we want.We will say what we wish,and no one can stop us.”
5. “But now I will come,” says the Lord,“because the needy are oppressedand the persecuted groan in pain.I will give them the security they long for.”
6. The promises of the Lord can be trusted;they are as genuine as silverrefined seven times in the furnace.
7-8. The wicked are everywhere,and everyone praises what is evil.Keep us always safe, O Lord,and preserve us from such people.