36
You, O king, shall not stain the honorable mouth of my old age, nor my long life lived lawfully.
37
The fathers will receive me as pure, as one who does not fear your violence even to death.
38
You may tyrannize the ungodly, but you shall not dominate my religious principles either by word or by deed."
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.