2. Save me, O Lord, because holiness has passed away, because truths have been diminished, before the sons of men.
3. They have been speaking emptiness, each one to his neighbor; they have been speaking with deceitful lips and a duplicitous heart.
4. May the Lord scatter all deceitful lips, along with the tongue that speaks malice.
5. They have said: "We will magnify our tongue; our lips belong to us. What is Lord to us?"