Make the path for your feet level, so that all your ways may be established.

They will lift you up in their hands, so you will not slip and fall on a stone.

May he not allow your foot to slip! May your protector not sleep!

My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

for the Lord will be the source of your confidence, and he will guard your foot from being caught in a trap.

Do not turn to the right or to the left; turn yourself away from evil.

Don’t set foot too frequently in your neighbor’s house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.

so that your feet may stomp in their blood, and your dogs may eat their portion of the enemies’ corpses.”

The Lord will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils – from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

I have led you through the desert for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out nor have your sandals deteriorated.

Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say, ‘It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue them!’

Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.

The commander of the Lord’s army answered Joshua, “Remove your sandals from your feet, because the place where you stand is holy.” Joshua did so.

That day Moses made this solemn promise: ‘Surely the land on which you walked will belong to you and your descendants permanently, for you remained loyal to the Lord your God.’

Be careful what you do when you go to the temple of God; draw near to listen rather than to offer a sacrifice like fools, for they do not realize that they are doing wrong.

You must observe the Sabbath rather than doing anything you please on my holy day. You must look forward to the Sabbath and treat the Lord’s holy day with respect. You must treat it with respect by refraining from your normal activities, and by refraining from your selfish pursuits and from making business deals.

All the women who are left in the royal palace of Judah will be led out to the officers of the king of Babylon. They will taunt you saying, ‘Your trusted friends misled you; they have gotten the best of you. Now that your feet are stuck in the mud, they have turned their backs on you.’