For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

{To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.} My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.