¹⁸ We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path.

¹⁵⁷ Many `are' my pursuers, and adversaries, From Thy testimonies I have not turned aside.

⁵¹ The proud have utterly scorned me, From Thy law I have not turned aside.

⁶ And those removing from after Jehovah, And who have not sought Jehovah, nor besought Him.

⁵⁷ And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow,

⁵⁸ so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

³² remember the wife of Lot.

¹⁰ They have turned back to the iniquities of their first fathers, Who refused to hear My words, And they have gone after other gods to serve them, The house of Israel, and the house of Judah, Have made void My covenant, that I made with their fathers.

⁵ As to those turning `to' their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!

²⁷ Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,

¹¹ On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside,

¹² The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.

⁵ in that David did that which `is' right in the eyes of Jehovah, and turned not aside from all that He commanded him all days of his life -- only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite;

¹⁰ ye `are' witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,