Remove from me the way of lying, and graciously teach me Your law.
Through Your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
Therefore I esteem all Your precepts to be right; I hate every false way.
I hate and abhor lying, but Your law do I love.
Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity, and revive me in Your ways.
Oh that my ways were directed to keep Your statutes!
Remove far from me falsehood and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with my daily bread,
He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside so that he cannot deliver his soul, or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”
O Lord, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to You from the remote parts of the earth, and will say: Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.
“Those who follow vain idols forsake their true loyalty.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Whoever says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Outside are dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and practices a lie.