For observing the festival is a requirement for Israel; it is an ordinance given by the God of Jacob.

Cruel rulers are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws.

so that they might keep his commands and obey his laws. Praise the Lord!

I will keep your statutes. Do not completely abandon me!

Though rulers plot and slander me, your servant meditates on your statutes.

I will lift my hands to your commands, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes.

It was good for me to suffer, so that I might learn your statutes.

May I be fully committed to your statutes, so that I might not be ashamed.

For I am like a wineskin dried up in smoke. I do not forget your statutes.

You despise all who stray from your statutes, for they are deceptive and unreliable.

ק (Qof) I cried out with all my heart, “Answer me, O Lord! I will observe your statutes.”

The wicked have no chance for deliverance, for they do not seek your statutes.

He established them so they would endure; he issued a decree that will not be revoked.

She also gets up while it is still night, and provides food for her household and a portion to her female servants.

It will be a day for rebuilding your walls; in that day your boundary will be extended.

You must observe this event as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.

they must wash their hands and their feet so that they do not die. And this will be a perpetual ordinance for them and for their descendants throughout their generations.”

The high priest who succeeds him from among his sons must do it. It is a perpetual statute; it must be offered up in smoke as a whole offering to the Lord.

These are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that Moses spoke to the Israelites after he had brought them out of Egypt,

Keep his commandments very carefully, as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe.