as well as wine that makes people feel so good, and so they can have oil to make their faces shine, as well as food that sustains people’s lives.

Their prosperity causes them to do wrong; their thoughts are sinful.

I will give you sincere thanks, when I learn your just regulations.

A psalm by Asaph. Certainly God is good to Israel, and to those whose motives are pure!

So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.

I will have nothing to do with a perverse person; I will not permit evil.

The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them.

I will destroy anyone who slanders his neighbor in secret. I will not tolerate anyone who has a cocky demeanor and an arrogant attitude.

Praise the Lord! I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart, in the assembly of the godly and the congregation.

For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said, ‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’

For he never bothered to show kindness; he harassed the oppressed and needy, and killed the disheartened.