For the music director; a song, a psalm. Shout out praise to God, all the earth!

He gave it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as a lasting promise,

How can we sing a song to the Lord in a foreign land?

Wisdom gives a wise person more protection than ten rulers in a city.

and for a drink offering you must offer one-third of a hin of wine as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

It is better for a person to meet a mother bear being robbed of her cubs, than to encounter a fool in his folly.

A relative offended is harder to reach than a strong city, and disputes are like the barred gates of a fortified citadel.

It is better to live on a corner of the housetop than in a house in company with a quarrelsome wife.

Israel has rebelled like a stubborn heifer! Soon the Lord will put them out to pasture like a lamb in a broad field!

and said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both flawless, and present them before the Lord.

“For seven days you will provide every day a goat for a sin offering; a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish, will be provided.

A person’s spirit sustains him through sickness – but who can bear a crushed spirit?

Like cold water to a weary person, so is good news from a distant land.

Now a man named Zacchaeus was there; he was a chief tax collector and was rich.

So they gave him a piece of broiled fish,

Yes, sons are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward.

Then a round lead cover was raised up, revealing a woman sitting inside the basket.

They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.”

My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, and have become a guarantor for a stranger,

This man is staying as a guest with a man named Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea.”