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!
Blessed are those who (C)keep his (D)testimonies,
    who (E)seek him with their whole heart,
who also (F)do no wrong,
    but walk in his ways!
You have commanded your (G)precepts
    to be kept diligently.
Oh that my ways may (H)be steadfast
    in keeping your statutes!
(I)Then I shall not be put to shame,
    having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.
I will praise you with an upright heart,
    when I learn (J)your righteous rules.[b]
I will keep your statutes;
    (K)do not utterly forsake me!

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

遵行耶和華律法者大有福祉

119 行為完全,遵行耶和華律法的,這人便為有福!
遵守他的法度,一心尋求他的,這人便為有福!
這人不做非義的事,但遵行他的道。
耶和華啊,你曾將你的訓詞吩咐我們,為要我們殷勤遵守。
但願我行事堅定,得以遵守你的律例!
我看重你的一切命令,就不至於羞愧。
我學了你公義的判語,就要以正直的心稱謝你。
我必守你的律例,求你總不要丟棄我。

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Repentance and Forgiveness

30 (A)“And (B)when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and (C)you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you, and (D)return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, then the Lord your God (E)will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will (F)gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. (G)If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will take you. And the Lord your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it. (H)And he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers. And (I)the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, (J)so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. And the Lord your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you. And you shall again obey the voice of the Lord and keep all his commandments that I command you today. (K)The Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. (L)For the Lord will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers,

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應許與誡命

30 「我所陳明在你面前的這一切咒詛都臨到你身上,你在耶和華你神追趕你到的萬國中必心裡追念祝福的話。 你和你的子孫若盡心、盡性歸向耶和華你的神,照著我今日一切所吩咐的聽從他的話, 那時耶和華你的神必憐恤你,救回你這被擄的子民。耶和華你的神要回轉過來,從分散你到的萬民中將你招聚回來。 你被趕散的人,就是在天涯的,耶和華你的神也必從那裡將你招聚回來。 耶和華你的神必領你進入你列祖所得的地,使你可以得著;又必善待你,使你的人數比你列祖眾多。 耶和華你神必將你心裡和你後裔心裡的汙穢除掉,好叫你盡心、盡性愛耶和華你的神,使你可以存活。 耶和華你的神必將這一切咒詛加在你仇敵和恨惡你、逼迫你的人身上。 你必歸回,聽從耶和華的話,遵行他的一切誡命,就是我今日所吩咐你的。

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Traditions and Commandments

15 (A)Then Pharisees and (B)scribes came to Jesus (C)from Jerusalem and said, (D)“Why do your disciples break (E)the tradition of the elders? (F)For they do not wash their hands when they eat.” He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? For God commanded, (G)‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, (H)‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,”[a] he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have (I)made void the word[b] of God. (J)You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:

(K)“‘This people honors me with their lips,
    but their heart is far from me;
in vain do they worship me,
    teaching as (L)doctrines the commandments of men.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 15:5 Or is an offering
  2. Matthew 15:6 Some manuscripts law

禮上的汙穢

15 那時,有法利賽人和文士從耶路撒冷來見耶穌,說: 「你的門徒為什麼犯古人的遺傳呢?因為吃飯的時候,他們不洗手。」 耶穌回答說:「你們為什麼因著你們的遺傳,犯神的誡命呢? 神說:『當孝敬父母』,又說:『咒罵父母的,必治死他。』 你們倒說,無論何人對父母說:『我所當奉給你的已經做了供獻』, 他就可以不孝敬父母。這就是你們藉著遺傳,廢了神的誡命! 假冒為善的人哪!以賽亞指著你們說的預言是不錯的,他說: 『這百姓用嘴唇尊敬我,心卻遠離我。 他們將人的吩咐當做道理教導人,所以拜我也是枉然。』」

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