the fear of the Lord is clean,
    enduring forever;
the rules[a] of the Lord are (A)true,
    and righteous altogether.

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  1. Psalm 19:9 Or just decrees

24 (A)Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider (B)what great things he has done for you.

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142 Your righteousness is righteous forever,
    and your law is (A)true.

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Tsadhe

137 (A)Righteous are you, O Lord,
    and right are your rules.
138 You have appointed your testimonies in (B)righteousness
    and in all (C)faithfulness.

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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Aleph

119 [a] Blessed are those whose (A)way is blameless,
    who (B)walk in the law of the Lord!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 119:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem of twenty-two stanzas, following the letters of the Hebrew alphabet; within a stanza, each verse begins with the same Hebrew letter

11 (A)Come, O children, listen to me;
    (B)I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
12 (C)What man is there who desires life
    and loves many days, that he may (D)see good?
13 (E)Keep your tongue from evil
    and your lips from (F)speaking deceit.
14 (G)Turn away from evil and do good;
    seek peace and (H)pursue it.

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And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so (A)righteous as all this law that I set before you today?

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And they sing (A)the song of Moses, (B)the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,

(C)“Great and amazing are your deeds,
    O Lord God the Almighty!
(D)Just and true are your ways,
    O King of the nations![a]

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  1. Revelation 15:3 Some manuscripts the ages

13 he will (A)bless those who fear the Lord,
    (B)both the small and the great.

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10 (A)The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
    all those who practice it have (B)a good understanding.
    His (C)praise endures forever!

The Righteous Will Never Be Moved

112 [a] (D)Praise the Lord!
(E)Blessed is the man who fears the Lord,
    who (F)greatly delights in his commandments!
His (G)offspring will be mighty in the land;
    (H)the generation of the upright will be blessed.
(I)Wealth and riches are in his house,
    and his (J)righteousness endures forever.
Light dawns in the darkness (K)for the upright;
    he is gracious, merciful, and (L)righteous.
It is well with the man who (M)deals generously and lends;
    who conducts his affairs with justice.
For the righteous will (N)never be moved;
    (O)he will be remembered forever.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 112:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem, each line beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet

12 And as soon as I have gone from you, (A)the Spirit of the Lord will carry you I know not where. And so, when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have feared the Lord from my youth.

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18 On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, (A)for I fear God:

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    for (A)his judgments are true and just;
for he has judged (B)the great prostitute
    who corrupted the earth with her immorality,
and (C)has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”

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And I heard (A)the altar saying,

“Yes, Lord God the Almighty,
    (B)true and just are your judgments!”

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We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things.

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In the path of your judgments,
    O Lord, we wait for you;
(A)your name and (B)remembrance
    are the desire of our soul.

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106 I have (A)sworn an oath and confirmed it,
    to keep your (B)righteous rules.

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I will praise you with an upright heart,
    when I learn (A)your righteous rules.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 119:7 Or your just and righteous decrees; also verses 62, 106, 160, 164

Give the King Your Justice

Of (A)Solomon.

72 Give the king your (B)justice, O God,
    and your righteousness to the royal son!
May he (C)judge your people with righteousness,
    and your poor with justice!

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(A)Your righteousness is like the mountains of God;
    (B)your judgments are like the great deep;
    man and beast you (C)save, O Lord.

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How Precious Is Your Steadfast Love

To the choirmaster. Of David, the (A)servant of the Lord.

36 Transgression speaks to the wicked
    deep in his heart;[a]
(B)there is no fear of God
    before his eyes.

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  1. Psalm 36:1 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac, Jerome (compare Septuagint); most Hebrew manuscripts in my heart

His ways prosper at all times;
    your judgments are on high, (A)out of his sight;
    as for all his foes, he (B)puffs at them.

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15 The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration[a] forty shekels[b] of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, (A)because of the fear of God.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 5:15 Compare Vulgate; Hebrew took from them for food and wine after
  2. Nehemiah 5:15 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams

And Ahab called Obadiah, who was (A)over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly, and (B)when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.)

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Laws About Slaves

21 “Now these are the (A)rules that you shall set before them.

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