Psalms 119:51

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them.

but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know; and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.”

Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.

I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.

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

because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”

Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.

In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

because they turned away from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,

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

I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants.

Surely the islands will wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.

They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words. They have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

Remember Lot’s wife!

The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”

‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ”

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.

The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.

You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.

Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.

Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.

Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise in the islands.

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The islands will wait for me, and they will trust my arm.

“I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me.

In his name, the nations will hope.”

They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.”

One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!”

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them.

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don’t let me be disappointed.

The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.

and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands wait for his law.”

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”