Psalms 119:155

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

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.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

“He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

“Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;

and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.’ ”

His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law.

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,

“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.

“Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

Yahweh says, “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is near and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

“They will go out, and look at the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”

Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

But those of those who escape, they will escape and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.

It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have fought against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!

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.

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Didn’t your fathers do this, and didn’t our God bring all this evil on us, and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan

Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.

then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed Yahweh, their God’s voice, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.

Those who are far off shall come and build in Yahweh’s temple; and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey Yahweh your God’s voice.” ’ ”

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.

A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”

Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!

I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

We all roar like bears and moan bitterly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed Yahweh’s voice, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has happened to you, as it is today.”

You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.

Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.

He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.