A Psalm of David, I will sing of loyal love and justice: to Thee, O Lord, I will sing.

Of David, a psalm. I shall sing Your justice [("Blessed is the righteous Judge")] as well as [Your] lovingkindness [("Blessed is the Good and the Doer of good")]. [In either event,] to You, O L rd, shall I sing.

I will celebrate with a Maskil psalm the way of integrity. O when wilt Thou come to me? I will walk within my house in the integrity of my heart.

I shall set my heart upon the way of purity — When shall it come to me [to walk upon it]? I shall walk in the innocence of my heart in the midst of my house [i.e., privately as well as in public].

I will set no wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the work of those who turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

I shall not set before my eyes the work of the faithless one. I have hated the working of perversity; it shall not cleave unto me.

A perverse heart shall depart from me: I will know no evil matter.

The perverse heart shall depart from me; I shall not know evil.

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbour, him I will cut off: him that has a high look and a proud heart I will not suffer.

He who slanders his friend in secret, him shall I cut off. The haughty of eye and the broad of heart [i.e., the lustful one], him shall I not endure [(as a friend, so that I not learn from his ways)].

My eyes are upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walks in the way of integrity, he shall serve me.

My eyes are upon the faithful of the land, to sit with me. He who walks in the way of purity, he shall serve me.

He that works deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that tells lies shall not remain in my sight.

The worker of deceit shall not sit in the midst of my house. The speaker of lies shall not be suffered before my eyes.

Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all the evildoers from the city of the Lord.

In the mornings [i.e., day by day] I shall cut off all the wicked of the land [(the wicked of Israel who are liable to the death penalty)], to cut off from the city of the L rd all workers of iniquity.