For you defended my just cause; from your throne you pronounced a just decision.

Whoever lives a blameless life, does what is right, and speaks honestly.

All day long they cause me trouble; they make a habit of plotting my demise.

I concluded, “Surely in vain I have kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle.

So he made a solemn vow that he would make them die in the desert,

I will thank the Lord profusely, in the middle of a crowd I will praise him,

Do not completely deprive me of a truthful testimony, for I await your justice.

the one who delivers kings, and rescued David his servant from a deadly sword.

Everything looks to you in anticipation, and you provide them with food on a regular basis.

The wicked person desires a stronghold, but the righteous root endures.

The Lord abhors a person who lies, but those who deal truthfully are his delight.

A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but the victory is from the Lord.

As Death and Destruction are never satisfied, so the eyes of a person are never satisfied.

Egypt will not be able to do a thing, head or tail, shoots and stalk.

Those who live uprightly enter a place of peace; they rest on their beds.

Now the altar hearth is a perfect square, 21 feet long and 21 feet wide.

The boy answered, ‘I will not.’ But later he had a change of heart and went.

Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom.

Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land sprouted with a harvest.

They assigned them Shechem (a city of refuge for one who committed manslaughter) in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer,