Psalms 119:106

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

I said to you, “I am Yahweh your God. You shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.” But you have not listened to my voice.’ ”

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice. You shall serve him, and cling to him.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

“ ‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it, for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’ ”

and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, with the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, “Treason! Treason!”

Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that they should be Yahweh’s people; also between the king and the people.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

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

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

Praise waits for you, God, in Zion. Vows shall be performed to you.

Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings shall bring presents to you.

Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.

“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’ ”

then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “May Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;

Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh’s people.

Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”

in whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;

Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

For you, God, have heard my vows. You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.

For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

They are established forever and ever. They are done in truth and uprightness.

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Yahweh said, “Even thus will the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.”

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”

“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”

Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

Yahweh is my portion. I promised to obey your words.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,

“ ‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.

When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people agreed to the covenant.

The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he be shaken out and emptied like this.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.

Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.

Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.

Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me.

I declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will keep your statutes.

how he swore to Yahweh, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:

When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in every man proclaiming liberty to his neighbor. You had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name;

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

“Again you have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’

This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.