As for the works of men, by the words of Your lips I have guarded [myself from] hard ways.

[A Psalm] of David. Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in my innocence; and hoping in the Lord I shall not be moved.

With my whole heart have I diligently sought You; cast me not away from Your commandments.

I have hidden Your oracles in my heart, that I might not sin against You.

And in this I myself am engaging, having a conscience blameless toward God and men through everything.

You are witnesses, and [so is] God, how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we were to you that believe;

I have not departed from Your judgments; for You have instructed me.

I greatly regret that I have made Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following Me, and has not kept My word. And Samuel was grieved, and cried to the Lord all night.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but [they went out] in order that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.