Psalms 146:9

I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

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

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

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

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the unfaithful is hard.

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

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.

Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.

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

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

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.

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.

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you.

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:

I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”

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;

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

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

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.

The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”

Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

Yahweh knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance shall be forever.

Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’ ”

who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.

“It will happen in that day”, says Yahweh, “that I will cut off your horses out from among you, and will destroy your chariots.

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

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,

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”

Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”

Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.

He gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but he will destroy all the wicked.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.