1 Help us, LORD!
There is not a good person
left;
honest people can no longer be
found.
2All 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
oppressed
and 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 silver
refined 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.
There is not a good person
left;
honest people can no longer be
found.
2All 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
oppressed
and 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 silver
refined 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.