1. Help, Lord, for the godly man comes to an end,for the faithful disappear from sons of men.
2. They speak empty words, each with his own neighbor;they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
3. The Lord will cut off all flattering lips,and the tongue that speaks proud things,
4. who have said, “With our tongue will we prevail;our lips are in our control, who is master over us?”
5. “Because the poor are plundered,because the needy sigh,now I will arise,” says the Lord;“I will place him in the safety for which he yearns.”