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

¹⁹ As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

¹⁰ For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

¹¹ All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

⁴ May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, And might prevail when you come into judgment."

⁵ But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

¹ Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?

¹⁶⁰ All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.

¹²⁸ Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

⁶² At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, Because of your righteous ordinances.

⁷ I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, When I learn your righteous judgments.

³⁰ If his children forsake my law, And don't walk in my ordinances;

³¹ If they break my statutes, And don't keep my commandments;

³² Then I will punish their sin with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes.

³³ But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, Nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

¹⁰ All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth To such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

²³ For he doesn't need to consider a man further, That he should go before God in judgment.

⁴ The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.

²⁵ Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"