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.”