Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

Look, you desire integrity in the inner man; you want me to possess wisdom.

Certainly my tongue does not frame a word without you, O Lord, being thoroughly aware of it.

If the righteous are recompensed on earth, how much more the wicked sinner!

Look, a king will promote fairness; officials will promote justice.

Look, ambassadors cry out in the streets; messengers sent to make peace weep bitterly.

Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.

Look, all of them are nothing, their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance.

Look, I have inscribed your name on my palms; your walls are constantly before me.

Look, I made him a witness to nations, a ruler and commander of nations.”

Everyone who does not observe both the law of your God and the law of the king will be completely liable to the appropriate penalty, whether it is death or banishment or confiscation of property or detainment in prison.”

Abram added, “Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!”

Pharaoh was thinking, “The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”

But Moses said before the Lord, “Since I speak with difficulty, why should Pharaoh listen to me?”

The Israelites said to Moses, “We are bound to die! We perish, we all perish!

The heavens – indeed the highest heavens – belong to the Lord your God, as does the earth and everything in it.

“Surely, God does not reject a blameless man, nor does he grasp the hand of the evildoers.

If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.

If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.