Psalms 119:70

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

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.

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

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

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.

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

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

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

lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

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.

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

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

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

You shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

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.

because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’

a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for sheep to tread on.”

Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.

You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.

But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, then I would heal them.’

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

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

Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!

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

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

I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.

I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice,

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh. The fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,

For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

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

Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,