I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
Lying vanities - the idols, literal or spiritual, in which the worldly trust, and which prove lying vanities, disappointing the hopes of their votaries (Jonah 2:8).
But I trust - "in the Lord," who is the "God of truth" (Psalms 31:5), keeping all His promise. "I" in the Hebrew is emphatic. However others may observe, lying vanities, 'I, for my part, trust in Yahweh.' The Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic read, 'Thou hatest lying vanities.' But the English version reading suits better the contrast between the first and second clauses of this verse. So the Chaldaic reads. Compare also Psalms 16:4; Psalms 31:4-5. As 'idols' of every kind are things of vanity or no-nothingness х hebel (H1892)], so 'Yahweh' (meaning in Hebrew, real essential being-the great "I AM") is pure and self-derived entity and truth (cf. Deuteronomy 32:21). "Lying vanities" form the antithesis to the "God of truth," Psalms 31:5.