Promised Faithfulness to the Lord

¹I will sing of mercy and justice;

To You, O Lord , I will sing praises.

²I will behave wisely in a perfect way.

Oh, when will You come to me?

I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

³I will set nothing wicked before my eyes;

I hate the work of those who fall away;

It shall not cling to me.

⁴A perverse heart shall depart from me;

I will not know wickedness.

⁵Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor,

Him I will destroy;

The one who has a haughty look and a proud heart,

Him I will not endure.

⁶My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land,

That they may dwell with me;

He who walks in a perfect way,

He shall serve me.

⁷He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house;

He who tells lies shall not continue in my presence.

⁸Early I will destroy all the wicked of the land,[#(Ps. 75:10); Jer. 21:12]

That I may cut off all the evildoers from the city of the Lord .