Into Your hand I commit my spirit. You have redeemed me, Adonai, God of truth.
Whenever I sit down or stand up, You know it. You discern my thinking from afar.
One with clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully.
I detest the company of evildoers, and do not sit with the wicked.
Then the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
They are futile, a work of mockery. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
They are totally stupid and foolish. Discipline is useless—it’s wood!
As my soul was fading from me, I remembered Adonai and my prayer came to You, toward Your holy Temple.
Then He said to them, “Take some water out, and give it to the headwaiter.” And they brought it.
for even though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give Him thanks. Instead, their thinking became futile, and their senseless hearts were made dark.
No, I’m saying that what the pagans sacrifice is to demons and not to God, and I don’t want you to become partners with demons.
Therefore concerning the eating of idol sacrifices, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.