⁹ The fear of the Lord is clean, and has no end; the decisions of the Lord are true and full of righteousness.

¹⁴² Your righteousness is an unchanging righteousness, and your law is certain.

¹ <ALEPH> Happy are they who are without sin in their ways, walking in the law of the Lord.

¹¹ Come, children, give attention to me; I will be your teacher in the fear of the Lord.

¹² What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?

¹³ Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

¹⁴ Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

²⁴ Only go in the fear of the Lord, and be his true servants with all your heart, keeping in mind what great things he has done for you.

¹² And straight away, when I have gone from you, the spirit of the Lord will take you away, I have no idea where, so that when I come and give word to Ahab, and he sees you not, he will put me to death: though I, your servant, have been a worshipper of the Lord from my earliest years.

¹⁵ But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

⁵ His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord. Of David.> The sin of the evil-doer says in his heart, There is no fear of the Lord before his eyes.

⁶ Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judging is like the great deep; O Lord, you give life to man and beast.

¹ <Of Solomon.> Give the king your authority, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son.

² May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor.

¹⁰ The fear of the Lord is the best part of wisdom: all those who keep his laws are wise: his praise is eternal.

¹ Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.

² His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.

³ A store of wealth will be in his house, and his righteousness will be for ever.

⁴ For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.

⁵ All is well for the man who is kind and gives freely to others; he will make good his cause when he is judged.

⁶ He will not ever be moved; the memory of the upright will be living for ever.

¹³ He will send blessings on the worshippers of the Lord, on the small and on the great.

¹⁰⁶ I have made an oath and kept it, to be guided by your upright decisions.

¹³⁷ <TZADE> O Lord, great is your righteousness, and upright are your decisions.

¹³⁸ You have given your unchanging word in righteousness, and it is for ever.

² For true and upright are his decisions; for by him has the evil woman been judged, who made the earth unclean with the sins of her body; and he has given her punishment for the blood of his servants.

³ And Ahab sent for Obadiah, the controller of the king's house. (Now Obadiah had the fear of the Lord before him greatly;

⁴ For when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred of them, and kept them secretly in a hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water.)

⁸ And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?

¹ Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.

¹⁸ And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:

¹² And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.

³⁹ Take away the shame which is my fear; for your decisions are good.

⁶² In the middle of the night I will get up to give you praise, because of all your right decisions.

⁷⁵ I have seen, O Lord, that your decisions are right, and that in unchanging faith you have sent trouble on me.

¹⁹ He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.

¹³ The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.

⁸ We have been waiting for you, O Lord; the desire of our soul is for the memory of your name.

²² And they said, Cornelius, a captain, an upright and God-fearing man, respected by all the nation of the Jews, had word from God by an angel to send for you to his house, and to give hearing to your words.

² And we are conscious that God is a true judge against those who do such things.

¹⁰ As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;

¹¹ Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;

¹² They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:

¹³ Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

¹⁴ Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

¹⁵ Their feet are quick in running after blood;

¹⁶ Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

¹⁷ And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:

¹⁸ There is no fear of God before their eyes.

²² See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.

³ And they give the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and full of wonder are your works, O Lord God, Ruler of all; true and full of righteousness are your ways, eternal King.

⁷ And a voice came from the altar, saying, Even so, O Lord God, Ruler of all, true and full of righteousness is your judging.

⁷ I will give you praise with an upright heart in learning your right decisions.