1 If kindness and justice I sing, making melody to you, Lord .
2 I would look to the way that is blameless, and make it my own. Within my own house I would walk with an innocent heart.
3 I would never direct my eyes to a thing that is base. The impulse to stray I abhor it shall not cling to me.
4 Far from me be perverseness of heart, or kinship with evil.
5 Who slanders their neighbor in secret, I bring them to silence: haughty looks and proud hearts I will not abide.
6 I will favor the true in the land, they shall live in my court. Those who walk in a way that is blameless will be my attendant.
7 No one will live in my house who practises guile. No one that speaks a lie will abide in my presence.
8 Morn by morn I will wholly wipe out all the bad in the land, and cut off from the Lord ’s own city all workers of evil.