Psalms 119:162

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.

When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.

My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

He said to me, “Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you.” Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.

Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, “Take it, and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”

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

and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan’s bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.

We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.”

Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.

I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.

My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

You have increased the nation, O Yahweh. You have increased the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of the land.

I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight, and her people a joy.

“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

But you, son of man, hear what I tell you. Don’t be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.”

But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

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

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.

Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh. I have done your commandments.

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

God has spoken from his sanctuary: “I will triumph. I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.

Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.

I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.

I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

Receive my instruction rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold.

For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.

who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.”

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.