Righteousness and justice make up the foundation of your throne; gracious love and truth meet before you.

May your favor be on us, Lord our God; make our endeavors successful; yes, make our endeavors secure! A Davidic Psalm

Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth! Break forth into joyful songs of praise!

He makes the winds his messengers, blazing fires his servants.

like wine that makes the heart of people happy, oil that makes the face glow, and food that sustains people.

Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name, and make his deeds known among the people.

to discipline his rulers at will and make his elders wise.

He delivered for the sake of his name, to make his power known.

A declaration from the LORD to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool."

He makes the barren woman among her household a happy mother of joyful children. Hallelujah!

Your statutes are my songs, no matter where I make my home.

Your commands make me wiser than my adversaries, since they are always with me.

Great peace belongs to those who love your instruction, and nothing makes them stumble.

My help is from the LORD, maker of heaven and earth.

Our help is in the name of the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth. A Song of Ascents

He makes the clouds rise from the ends of the earth, fashioning lightning for the rain, bringing the wind from his storehouses.

in order to make known your mighty acts to mankind as well as the majestic splendor of your kingdom.

maker of heaven and earth, the seas and everything in them, forever the guardian of truth,

The LORD stands guard over the stranger; he supports both widows and orphans, but makes the path of the wicked slippery.

He sends out his word and melts them. He makes his wind blow and the water flows.

May Israel rejoice in its Maker, and Zion's descendants in their King!

Return to my correction! Look, I will pour out my spirit on you, and I will make my words known to you.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Proceeding down the street near her corner, he makes his way toward her house

Look! A woman makes her way to meet him, dressed as a prostitute and intending to entrap him.

Come, let's make love until dawn; let's comfort ourselves with love,

Delayed hope makes the heart ill, but fulfilled longing is a tree of life.

Fools make fun of guilt, but among the upright there are good intentions.

Righteousness makes a nation great, but sin diminishes any people.

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their maker, and whoever is happy about disaster will not go unpunished.

A person's discretion makes him slow to anger, and it is to his credit that he ignores an offence.

Make plans by seeking advice; make war by obtaining guidance.

Don't make friends with a hot-tempered man, and do not associate with someone who is easily angered,

Don't be one of those who make promises to guarantee loans for debts.

Let your father and mother rejoice; make the one who gave birth to you happy.

Otherwise, anyone who hears will make you ashamed, and your bad reputation will never leave you.

Be wise, my son, and make me happy, so I can reply to anyone who insults me.

When you make a promise to God, don't fail to keep it, since he isn't pleased with fools. Keep what you promise

Unjust gain makes the wise foolish, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

Festivals are for laughter, wine makes life pleasant, and money speaks to everything.

Just as you do not understand the way of the spirit in the womb of a pregnant mother, so also you do not know what God is doing in everything he makes.

Tell me, you whom I love, where do you graze your flock? Where do you make your flock lie down at noon? Why should I be considered a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?

We will make ornaments of gold for you, accented with silver.

Awake, north wind, and come, south wind. Make my garden breathe out, let its fragrance flow. Let my beloved come into his garden, and let him eat its choicest fruits.

"Wash yourselves, and make yourselves clean; remove your evil behavior from my presence; stop practicing what is evil.

"I will make youths their princes, and infants will rule over them.

"But at that time, he'll protest! He'll say, "I won't be your healer. I have neither food nor clothing in my house! You're not going to make me a leader of the people!'

"At that time, seven women will cling tightly to one man and will make him this offer: "We'll provide our own bread. We'll provide our own clothes. Just let us marry you so we won't be stigmatized anymore.'"

I'll make it a wasteland, and it won't be pruned or cultivated. Instead, briers and thorns will grow up. I'll also issue commands to the clouds, that they drop no rain upon it."

"Ask a sign from the LORD your God. Make it as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven above."

"Give thanks to the LORD; call on his name. Make known his actions among the nations. Proclaim that his name is exalted.

I'll make people scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than gold from Ophir.

Therefore I'll make the heavens tremble. The earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, at the time of his burning anger.

It will never be inhabited or lived in through all generations; no Bedouin will pitch his tent there; no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.

Hyenas will howl in its strongholds, and jackals will make their dens in its citadels. Its time is close at hand, and its days will not be extended any further.

I'll ascend above the tops of the clouds; I'll make myself like the Most High.'

"And I'm going to make it a possession of the hedgehog pools of water and I'll sweep with the broom of destruction," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

At that time, men will look upon their Maker, and their eyes will honor the Holy One of Israel.

at the time that you plant them, carefully making them grow, the very morning you make your seed to sprout, your harvest will be ruined in a time of grief and unbearable pain."

Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you, let them make known what the LORD has planned against Egypt.

The LORD has mixed within them a spirit of confusion; so they make Egypt stagger in all that it does, like a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.

So the LORD will make himself known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will acknowledge the LORD.

At that time, they will worship with sacrifices and offerings, and they will make vows to the LORD and carry them out. The LORD will strike Egypt with a plague, striking but then healing. Then they will turn to the LORD, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them.

And as for my heart, horror has terrified me; the twilight I longed for has started to make me tremble.

"Take a harp; walk around the city, you forgotten whore! Make sweet melody; sing many songs, and perhaps you'll be remembered."

"The path of the righteous is level; O Upright One, you make safe the way of justice.

Or else let it lay claim to my protection; let it make peace with me, yes, let it make peace with me."

By this, then, Jacob's guilt will be atoned for, and this will be the full harvest that comes from the removal of his sin: when he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalkstones, no Asherah poles or incense altars will be left standing.

Because you said: "We have entered into a covenant with death, and we have an agreement with Sheol, so when the overwhelming scourge makes its choice, it cannot reach us, since we have made lies our refuge and have concealed ourselves inside falsehood,'

And I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line; hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and floods will overflow your hiding place.

He has turned the tables on you as if the potter were thought to be like heat. Can what is made say of the one who made it, "He did not make me?' Or can what is formed say of the ones who formed it, "He has no skill?'

those who make a person appear to be the offender in a lawsuit, who set a trap for someone who is making his defense in court, and push aside the innocent with specious arguments.

"Oh, you stubborn children," declares the LORD, "who carry out plans but they are not mine, and who make alliances but not by my Spirit, piling sin upon sin.

And the LORD will make heard yes, he will make heard his majestic voice, and make his arm seen descending in raging anger and in a flame of consuming fire, with a cloudburst, thunderstorm and hailstones.

So tremble, you ladies of leisure! Shudder, you daughters who feel so complacent! Strip down and make yourselves naked down to the waist! Then wrap yourself in sackcloth and beat your breasts.

"Tell Hezekiah, king of Judah, "This is what the mighty king, the king of Assyria, has to say: What is this "guarantee" that makes you yourself rely on it? Do you really think that guarantees alone can withstand strategy and military strength? On whom are you now depending, that you're rebelling against me?

Come now, all of you, make a bet with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you can furnish riders for them!

Don't listen to Hezekiah, because this is what the king of Assyria says: "Make your peace with me and come out to me. Then everyone will eat from his own vine and from his own fig tree, and everyone will drink water from his own cistern,

Your insolence has reached my ears, so I'll put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I'll make you turn back on the road by which you came.

Watch! I will make the shadow on the steps of the upper dial of Ahaz that marks the sun go ten steps backwards."'" Then the sunlight turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had gone down.

My house has been plucked up and vanishes from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver, I've taken account of my life, and he cuts me off from the loom day and night you make an end of me.

I've been swept bare until morning; just like a lion, he breaks all my bones day and night you make an end of me.

To an idol? A craftsman makes the image, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts silver chains.

who brings princes to nothing, and makes void the rulers of the earth.

"See, I'm making you into a new, sharp, and multi-tooth threshing sledge. You'll thresh and crush the mountains, and make the hills like chaff.

You'll winnow them, and the wind will lift them up, and a tempest will blow them away. Then you'll rejoice in the LORD, and you'll make your boast in the Holy One of Israel."

He won't shout, or raise his voice, or make it heard in the street.

The LORD marches out like a warrior; he stirs up his rage like a man of war; he makes his anger heard; he shouts aloud; he declares his mastery over his enemies:

The LORD was pleased, for the sake of his vindication, that he should magnify his Law and make it glorious.

This is what the LORD says who makes a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters,

The carpenter measures it with a line; he traces its shape with a stylus, then fashions it with planes and shapes it with a compass. He makes the idol like a human figure, with human beauty, to be at home in a shrine.

He cuts down cedars, or chooses a cypress tree or an oak, and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. Or he plants a cedar, and the rain makes it grow.

He divides it up for people to burn. Taking part of it, he warms himself, makes a fire, and bakes bread. Or perhaps he constructs a god and worships it. He makes it an idol and bows down to it.

And the rest of it he makes into a god. To blocks of wood he bows down, worships, prays, and says, "Save me, since you are my god."

No one stops to think. No one has the knowledge or understanding to think yes to think! "Half of it I burned in the fire. I even baked bread on its coals, and I roasted meat and ate it. And am I about to make detestable things from what is left? Am I about to bow down to blocks of wood?"

who frustrates the omens of idle talkers, and drives diviners mad, who turns back the wise, and makes their knowledge foolish;

"I myself will go before you, and he will make the mountains level; I'll shatter bronze doors and cut through iron bars.

"I form light and create darkness, I make goodness and create disaster. I am the LORD, who does all these things.

"I have aroused him in righteousness, and I'll make all his pathways smooth. It is he who will rebuild my city and set my exiles free, but not for a price nor reward, " says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.