¹ > Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

¹ The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].

¹³ transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

¹⁴ Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.

¹⁵ Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him who there was no justice.

¹² Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

¹ Run you back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.

⁵ I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; and my wrath, it upheld me.

⁴ None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

²¹ How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, But now murderers.

²² Your silver has become dross, Your wine mixed with water.

⁶ Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, But who can find a faithful man?

¹ > Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your anger, Neither discipline me in your wrath.

¹² God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

¹ Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vinyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.

² The godly man has perished out of the earth, And there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; Every man hunts his brother with a net.

³⁰ But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!"

²⁵ They came to him, and woke him up, saying, "Save us, Lord! We are dying!"

⁹ Unless Yahweh of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, We would have been as Sodom; We would have been like Gomorrah.

¹ > Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.

⁴ Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, And save me for your loving kindness' sake.

⁷ Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

²¹ and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre, to lead.