1/12/2024

Saving you from the way of the wicked,

from those whose speech is perverse.

From those who have left the straight paths

to walk in the ways of darkness,

Who delight in doing evil

and celebrate perversity;

Whose ways are crooked,

whose paths are devious;

Saving you from a stranger,

from the wicked with her smooth words,

One who forsakes the companion of her youth

and forgets the covenant of her God

For her path sinks down to death,

and her footsteps lead to the shades.

None who enter there come back,

or gain the paths of life.