From Thy precepts I have understanding, Therefore I have hated every false path!
The multitude are not wise, Nor do the aged understand judgment.
I set not before mine eyes a worthless thing, The work of those turning aside I have hated, It adhereth not to me.
Above elders I understand more, For Thy precepts I have kept.
Therefore all my appointments I have declared wholly right, Every path of falsehood I have hated!
Falsehood I have hated, yea I abominate `it', Thy law I have loved.
Cause me to understand, and I keep Thy law, And observe it with the whole heart.
Than mine enemies Thy command maketh me wiser, For it `is' before me to the age.
Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'
Ye who love Jehovah, hate evil, He is keeping the souls of His saints, From the hand of the wicked he delivereth them.
There is a way -- right before a man, And its latter end `are' ways of death.
The fear of Jehovah `is' to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.
Hate evil, and love good, And set up judgment in the gate, It may be Jehovah, God of Hosts, doth pity the remnant of Joseph.
`Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide `is' the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it;
The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;