Gad will be raided by marauding bands, but he will attack them at their heels.

ה (He) Teach me, O Lord, the lifestyle prescribed by your statutes, so that I might observe it continually.

I am determined to obey your statutes at all times, to the very end.

Yes, your servant finds moral guidance there; those who obey them receive a rich reward.

May those who say, “Aha! Aha!” be driven back and disgraced!

The reward for humility and fearing the Lord is riches and honor and life.

They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?

Because you have obeyed me, all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.’”

All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

May those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!” be humiliated and disgraced!

Even my close friend whom I trusted, he who shared meals with me, has turned against me.

In the womb he attacked his brother; in his manly vigor he struggled with God.

And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring’s heel.”

Only my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has followed me fully – I will bring him into the land where he had gone, and his descendants will possess it.

Just like the nations the Lord is about to destroy from your sight, so he will do to you because you would not obey him.

Because he committed this cold-hearted crime, he must pay for the lamb four times over!”

So now the sword will never depart from your house. For you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own!’

“Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel. Because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel!

If you obey these ordinances and are careful to do them, the Lord your God will faithfully keep covenant with you as he promised your ancestors.