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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 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.