*I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
Psalm 101:3 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; It shall not cleave to me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I will set no base or wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the work of them who turn aside [from the right path]; it shall not grasp hold of me. American Standard Version (1901) I will set no base thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; It shall not cleave unto me. Common English Bible I won’t set my eyes on anything worthless. I hate wrongdoing; none of that will stick to me. Catholic Public Domain Version Do not turn your face away from me. In whatever day that I am in trouble, incline your ear to me. In whatever day that I will call upon you, heed me quickly. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily. |
*I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, The LORD will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Shalom be on Yisra'el.
They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one.
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, and doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.
They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Yisra'el.
but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
You who love the LORD, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his holy ones. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
*You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.*
They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Yisra'el, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'*
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;
who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers;
Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Yisra'el to cease from before us.*
He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil--
But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,* says the LORD.
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
There shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to your hand; that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;
Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to the LORD against you, and it be sin to you.
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
Therefore be you very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the scroll of the Torah of Moshe, that you not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left;
For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy mitzvah delivered to them.
They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
It grieves me that I have set up Sha'ul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my mitzvot. Shemu'el was angry; and he cried to the LORD all night.