1. Help, Lord, for the godly man comes to an end,
1. for the faithful disappear from sons of men.
2. They speak empty words, each with his own neighbor;
2. they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
3. The Lord will cut off all flattering lips,
3. and the tongue that speaks proud things,
4. who have said, “With our tongue will we prevail;
4. our lips are in our control, who is master over us?”
5. “Because the poor are plundered,
5. because the needy sigh,
5. now I will arise,” says the Lord;
5. “I will place him in the safety for which he yearns.”
6. The words of the Lord are pure words;
6. they are silver tried in an earthen furnace
6. refined seven times.
7. You will keep them, O Lord;
7. You will preserve them from this generation.
8. The wicked walk on every side,
8. when the worthless of mankind are exalted.