It was only yesterday you came to us; why then am I to make you go up and down with us? for I have to go where I may; go back then, and take your countrymen with you, and may the Lord's mercy and good faith be with you.

All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.

Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.

Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.

True teaching was in his mouth, and no evil was seen on his lips: he was walking with me in peace and righteousness, turning numbers of people away from evil-doing.

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.

Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;

Bind

Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.

Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.

And this will be for a sign to you on your hand and for a mark on your brow, so that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth: for with a strong hand the Lord took you out of Egypt.

Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;

So keep these words deep in your heart and in your soul, and have them fixed on your hand for a sign and marked on your brow;

I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.

Write

The sin of Judah is recorded with a pen of iron, and with the sharp point of a jewel it is cut on their hearts of stone, and on the horns of their altars for a sign to them:

For you are clearly a letter of Christ, the fruit of our work, recorded not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in stone, but in hearts of flesh.

This is the agreement which I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws in their hearts, writing them in their minds; he said,

General references

Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;

Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word of this law.

Happy are your wives and happy these your servants whose place is ever before you, hearing your words of wisdom.

Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.

Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.