¹⁸ Our heart is not turned back, Neither have our steps declined from thy way,

¹⁵⁷ Many are my persecutors and mine adversaries; `Yet' have I not swerved from thy testimonies.

⁵¹ The proud have had me greatly in derision: `Yet' have I not swerved from thy law.

⁶ and them that are turned back from following Jehovah; and those that have not sought Jehovah, nor inquired after him.

⁵⁷ But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

⁵⁸ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.

³² Remember Lot's wife.

¹⁰ They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they are 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.

⁵ But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel. Psalm 126 A Song of Ascents.

²⁷ Because they turned aside from following him, And would not have regard in any of his ways:

¹¹ My foot hath held fast to his steps; His way have I kept, and turned not aside.

¹² I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

⁵ because David did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, and turned not aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God `also', how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe: