Lead me from the way of deceit; favor me with your law.
Through your precepts I gain understanding; therefore I hate all false ways.
Thus, I follow all your precepts; every wrong way I hate.
Falsehood I hate and abhor; your law I love.
Avert my eyes from what is worthless; by your way give me life.
May my ways be firm in the observance of your statutes!
Put falsehood and lying far from me, give me neither poverty nor riches; provide me only with the food I need;
He is chasing ashes! A deluded mind has led him astray; He cannot save himself, does not say, “This thing in my right hand—is it not a fraud?”
Lord, my strength, my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress! To you nations will come from the ends of the earth, and say, “Our ancestors inherited mere frauds, empty, worthless.”
When I became faint, I remembered the Lord; My prayer came to you in your holy temple.
If we say, “We are without sin,” we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the unchaste, the murderers, the idol-worshipers, and all who love and practice deceit.