1  A Psalm of David. I will sing of mercy and justice; unto Thee, O YHWH, will I sing praises.

1  I WILL sing of mercy and judgment; unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.

2  I will give heed unto the way of integrity; Oh when wilt Thou come unto me? I will walk within my house in the integrity of my heart.

2  and I will be wise in a blameless way. When wilt thou come to me? I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house.

2  I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

3  I will set no base thing before mine eyes; I hate the doing of things crooked; it shall not cleave unto me.

3  I have not set before mine eyes any unlawful thing; I have hated transgressors.

3  I will not display any unjust thing before my eyes. I have hated those carrying out betrayals.

4  A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know no evil thing.

4  A perverse heart has not cleaved to me; I have not known an evil man, forasmuch as he turns away from me.

4  The perverse heart did not adhere to me. And the malignant, who turned away before me, I would not recognize.

5  Whoso slandereth his neighbour in secret, him will I destroy; whoso is haughty of eye and proud of heart, him will I not suffer.

5  Him that privily speaks against his neighbour, him have I driven from me: he that is proud in look and insatiable in heart, —with him I have not eaten.

5  The one who secretly detracted his neighbor, this one I pursued. The one with an arrogant eye and an insatiable heart, with that one I would not eat.

6  Mine eyes are upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he that walketh in a way of integrity, he shall minister unto me.

6  My eyes looked toward the faithful of the earth, to sit with me. The one walking in the immaculate way, this one ministered to me.

6  Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in a perfect way shall serve me.

7  He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house; he that speaketh falsehood shall not be established before mine eyes.

7  The proud doer dwelt not in the midst of my house; the unjust speaker prospered not in my sight.

8  Morning by morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land; to cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of YHWH.

8  Early did I slay all the sinners of the land, that I might destroy out of the city of the Lord all that work iniquity.

8  In the morning, I executed all the sinners of the earth, so that I might scatter all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord.