# do not walk in your ways

The way a person lives is spoken of as walking on a path. Alternate translation: "do not do the things you do" or "do not do what is just the way you do" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

# Appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations

Possible meanings are 1) "Appoint for us a king like the kings of all the nations so that he can judge us" or 2) "Appoint for us a king who will judge us the way the kings of the nations judge them"

# Appoint for us a king to judge us

The leaders wrongly believed that a king, and his sons after him, would rule justly.