12 Save, O Lord, for ^(A)the godly one is gone;
    for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.

57 The righteous man perishes,
    and no one lays it to heart;
^(A)devout men are taken away,
    while no one understands.
For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;

5 ^(A)Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem,
    look and take note!
Search her squares to see
    ^(B)if you can find a man,
one who does justice
    and seeks truth,
^(C)that I may pardon her.

¹³ transgressing, and denying the Lord,
    and turning back from following our God,
^(A)speaking oppression and revolt,
    conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

^14 (B)Justice is turned back,
    and righteousness stands far away;
for truth has stumbled in the public squares,
    and uprightness cannot enter.
¹⁵ Truth is lacking,
    and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.

²¹ How the faithful city
    ^(A)has become a whore,^{[a]
    (B)}she who was full of justice!
Righteousness lodged in her,
    but now murderers.
^22 (C)Your silver has become dross,
    your best wine mixed with water.

7 Woe is me! For I have become
    ^(A)as when the summer fruit has been gathered,
    as when the grapes have been gleaned:
there is no cluster to eat,
    no ^(B)first-ripe fig that my soul desires.
^2 (C)The godly has perished from the earth,
    and ^(D)there is no one upright among mankind;
^(E)they all lie in wait for blood,
    and ^(F)each hunts the other with a net.

⁵ I looked, but ^(A)there was no one to help;
    I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;
so my own arm brought me salvation,
    and my wrath upheld me.

^4 (A)No one enters suit justly;
    no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
    ^(B)they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.