⁴ For not a God desiring wickedness `art' Thou, Evil inhabiteth Thee not.

¹⁷ `And I have known, my God, that Thou art trying the heart, and uprightness dost desire; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these: and now, Thy people who are found here I have seen with joy to offer willingly to Thee.

²³ and the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they may shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp of it `is' the Lamb;

¹³ and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell;

¹⁴ peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

¹⁷ Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words, And ye have said: `In what have we wearied Him?' In your saying: `Every evil-doer `is' good in the eyes of Jehovah, And in them He is delighting,' Or, `Where `is' the God of judgment?'

¹³ Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he,

¹³ Only -- the righteous give thanks to Thy name, The upright do dwell with Thy presence!

⁷ He dwelleth not in my house who is working deceit, Whoso is speaking lies Is not established before mine eyes.

²⁰ Is a throne of mischief joined `with' Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?

¹⁵ To declare that upright `is' Jehovah my rock, And there is no perverseness in Him!

²¹ These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.

⁵ Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,

²⁷ and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but -- those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.