¹¹ Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

⁸ Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.

¹¹ Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

¹² My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.

⁴ Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.

⁵ Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

⁶ They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.

²⁰ Though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not your teachers be hidden anymore, but your eyes shall see your teachers;

²¹ and your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it; when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.

²⁰ They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

⁴ As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.

⁵ Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, And the rough ways smooth.

⁶ All flesh will see God's salvation.'"

⁴ Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault, because he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

⁵ Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.

¹⁰ For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

⁸ A highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but is shall be for for him who walks in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.

¹² What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

⁵ He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.

⁵ All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

⁶ They conspire and lurk, Watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

¹⁰ With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments.

⁸ Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, For I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, For I lift up my soul to you.

⁹ Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.

¹⁰ Teach me to do your will, For you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

⁶ For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

⁷ He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;

⁸ That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.

⁹ Then you will understand righteousness and justice, Equity and every good path.

⁹ They are all plain to him who understands, Right to those who find knowledge.

¹⁹ The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, But the path of the upright is a highway.

⁹ He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.