³⁹ Take away my disgrace that I dread, For your ordinances are good.

⁸ and soundness of speech that can't be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

⁷ Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

²² Take reproach and contempt away from me, For I have kept your statutes.

² for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand."

¹⁴ I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for reviling.

² We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

⁸ Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you; to your name, even to your memorial [name], is the desire of our soul.

¹³¹ I opened my mouth wide and panted, For I longed for your commandments.

¹²³ My eyes fail looking for your salvation, For your righteous word.

⁷⁵ Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, That in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

⁴³ Don't snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, For I put my hope in your ordinances.

³¹ I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don't let me be disappointed.

²⁰ My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

³ He will send from heaven, and save me, He rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.

⁸ Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don't make me the reproach of the foolish.

⁹ The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.

¹⁴ However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh's enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die."

⁸ What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?