Concerning the works of men, by the Words of Your lips, I have kept from the paths of the destroyer.

i1 [A Psalm of David.] i0 par Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Jehovah; I shall not slip.

With my whole heart have I sought You; O let me not wander from Your Commandments!

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

This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience that is blameless toward God and men.

You are witnesses, and God also, how holily and uprightly and blamelessly we were among you who believe;

I have not departed from Your Justice, for You have taught me.

I regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not carried out My words. And it angered Samuel, and he cried out to Jehovah 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 that they might be made manifest, that not all of them are of us.