Adapted from Psalm 12

Leader: Save, O Lord, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.

People: Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

Leader: May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts, those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?”

People: “Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”

Leader: The…