I yearn for the Lord, more than watchmen do for the morning, yes, more than watchmen do for the morning.

The one who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his life from troubles.

“The Lord bless you and protect you;

The Lord will protect you from all harm; he will protect your life.

The one who obeys commandments guards his life; the one who despises his ways will die.

Be careful during an outbreak of leprosy to follow precisely all that the Levitical priests instruct you; as I have commanded them, so you should do.

Keep his commandments very carefully, as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe.

I will always extend my loyal love to him, and my covenant with him is secure.

The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. They beat me, they bruised me; they took away my cloak, those watchmen on the walls!

Here is a message about Dumah: Someone calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”

You have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have assigned foreigners to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.

and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

“You must be sure to do my commandments. I am the Lord.

I was blameless before him; I kept myself from sinning.

If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.

He puts my feet in shackles; he watches closely all my paths.’

I was innocent before him, and kept myself from sinning.

to those who keep his covenant, who are careful to obey his commands.

The Lord protects the untrained; I was in serious trouble and he delivered me.

You demand that your precepts be carefully kept.