³⁰ The way of faithfulness I have chosen, Thy judgments I have compared,

¹⁸ `And ye have placed these my words on your heart, and on your soul, and have bound them for a sign on your hand, and they have been for frontlets between your eyes;

¹⁹ and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

²⁰ and hast written them on the side-posts of thy house, and on thy gates,

² as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

⁴⁵ `And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.

¹⁹ `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

²⁰ for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

²¹ but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'

⁴² but of one thing there is need, and Mary the good part did choose, that shall not be taken away from her.'

²⁹ Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

¹⁷³ Thy hand is for a help to me, For Thy commands I have chosen.

¹¹¹ I have inherited Thy testimonies to the age, For the joy of my heart `are' they.

⁵² I remembered Thy judgments of old, O Jehovah, And I comfort myself.

²⁹ The way of falsehood turn aside from me And with Thy law favour me.

²⁴ Thy testimonies also `are' my delight, The men of my counsel!

¹⁵ and if wrong in your eyes to serve Jehovah -- choose for you to-day whom ye do serve; -- whether the gods whom your fathers served, which `are' beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling; and I and my house -- we serve Jehovah.'

⁴ I rejoiced exceedingly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, even as a command we did receive from the Father;