Put false ways far from me, and graciously teach me your law.
Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
Truly I direct my steps by all your precepts; I hate every false way.
I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love your law.
Turn my eyes from looking at vanities; be gracious to me according to your word.
O that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes!
Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that I need,
He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a fraud?”
O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our ancestors have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.
Those who worship 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 have come to know him,” but does not obey his commandments is a liar, and in such a person the truth does not exist;
Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.