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

¹⁴² Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.

¹ > Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, Who walk according to Yahweh's law.

¹¹ Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

¹² Who is someone who desires life, And loves many days, that he may see good?

¹³ Keep your tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking lies.

¹⁴ Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

²⁴ Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider how great things he has done for you.

¹² It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you I don't know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can't find you, he will kill me: but I your servant fear Yahweh from my youth.

¹⁵ But the former governors who were before me were chargeable to the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God.

⁵ His ways are prosperous at all times; He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight: As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

¹ > An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes."

⁶ Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

¹ > God, give the king your justice; Your righteousness to the royal son.

² He will judge your people with righteousness, And your poor with justice.

¹⁰ The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

¹ Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, Who delights greatly in his commandments.

² His seed will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

³ Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.

⁴ Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, Gracious, merciful, and righteous.

⁵ It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

⁶ For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

¹³ He will bless those who fear Yahweh, Both small and great.

¹⁰⁶ I have sworn, and have confirmed it, That I will obey your righteous ordinances.

¹³⁷ You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.

¹³⁸ You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.

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."

³ Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly:

⁴ for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Yahweh, that Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

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

¹ "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

¹⁸ Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.

¹² He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."

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

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

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

¹⁹ He shows his word to Jacob; His statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

¹³ The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

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.

²² They said, "Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say."

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

¹⁰ As it is written, "There is no one righteous. No, not one.

¹¹ There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

¹² They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, No, not, so much as one."

¹³ "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"

¹⁴ "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."

¹⁵ "Their feet are swift to shed blood.

¹⁶ Destruction and misery are in their ways.

¹⁷ The way of peace, they haven't known."

¹⁸ "There is no fear of God before their eyes."

²² See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

³ They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

⁷ I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments."

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