Thou tread'st down all that love to stray; false their deceit doth prove.
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: For their deceit is falsehood.
You spurn and set at nought all those who stray from Your statutes, for their own lying deceives them and their tricks are in vain.
Thou hast set at nought all them that err from thy statutes; For their deceit is falsehood.
You discard everyone who strays from your statutes because they are dishonest and false.
Unfeignedly thee have I sought with all my soul and heart: O let me not from the right path of thy commands depart.
Thou hast rebuk'd the cursed proud, who from thy precepts swerve.
From me the wicked way of lies let far removed be; And graciously thy holy law do thou grant unto me.
But, like their fathers, turned back, and dealt unfaithfully: Aside they turned, like a bow that shoots deceitfully.
Ev'n for the space of forty years this race hath grieved me. I said, This people errs in heart, my ways they do not know: