1I will sing of mercy and justice: unto you, O LORD, will I sing. 2I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when will you come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. 3I will set no wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. 4A perverse heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. 5Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: he that has a haughty look and a proud heart will I not endure. 6My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walks in a perfect way, he shall serve me. 7He that works deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that tells lies shall not tarry in my sight. 8I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.