²⁶ A wise king winnows out the wicked, And drives the threshing wheel over them.

⁸ A king who sits on the throne of judgment Scatters away all evil with his eyes.

⁹ David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

¹⁰ when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good news, I took hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.

¹¹ How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

¹² David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.

³¹ He brought forth the people who were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln: and thus did he to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

⁵ I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

⁶ My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, That they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, He will serve me.

⁷ He who practices deceit won't dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won't be established before my eyes.

⁸ Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land; To cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh's city.

²⁷ For the dill are not threshed with a sharp [threshing] instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about on the cumin; but the dill are beaten out with a staff, and the cumin with a rod.

²⁸ Bread [grain] is ground; for he will not be always threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he does not grind it.