Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.
I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.
Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;
He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there is no profit.
Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
One who says, *I know him,* and doesn't keep his mitzvot, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.
Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.