¹ tn Or “practices.”

¹ tn Or “to practice their religion.”

⁵ tn Heb “those who practice iniquity.”

¹ tn Grk “the ones who practice lawlessness.”

² tn Or, possibly, “justly”; NAB “who practices virtue.”

³ tn Or “what is abhorrent”; Grk “who practices abominations.”

⁴ tn Heb “and your abominable practices will be among you.”

¹ tn Heb “like all the abominable practices of the nations.”

² tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

² tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

² tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

³ tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

² tn Heb “You shall not practice divination and you shall not practice soothsaying”; cf. NRSV “practice augury or witchcraft.” For suggestions regarding the practices involved see B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 133, and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 320.

¹ sn This practice was a violation of Levitical law (see Lev 19:26).

³ sn This apparently alludes to the practice of child sacrifice (cf. TEV, CEV, NLT).

² tn Heb “to act sinfully in practices in wickedness with men, doers of evil.”

¹ tn The psalmist uses an imperfect verbal form to emphasize that this is his continuing practice.

¹ tn Heb “they walked in the practices of Israel which they did.”

³ tn Heb “and [the practices of] the kings of Israel which they did.”

¹ sn These practices suggest overtones of pagan ritual, all of which the confessor denies having undertaken. In Canaan they were connected with fertility practices associated with harvest time. See E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy (NAC), 335-36.