2 Samuel 15:20

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

“Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to Yahweh’s house.

Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. Saul was told that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.

“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them. There were with him about four hundred men.

David said to his men, “Every man put on his sword!” Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David, and two hundred stayed by the baggage.

Now may Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward you for this kindness, because you have done this thing.

Again, whom should I serve? Shouldn’t I serve in the presence of his son? As I have served in your father’s presence, so I will be in your presence.”

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill.

Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.

How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!

Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”

When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.

to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.

For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.

to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.

Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.

“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars.

“At that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there will be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time. At that time your people will be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.

“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Yahweh’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.

Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”

The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.

I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’

All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.

They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.

He shall be enthroned in God’s presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.

Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

Don’t they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.

They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek Yahweh’s word, and will not find it.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.