What man is he that feareth Jehovah? him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.

Wherefore should I fear in the days of adversity, when the iniquity of my supplanters encompasseth me? --

That he should still live perpetually, and not see corruption.

Should I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats?

If I said, I will speak thus, behold, I should be faithless to the generation of thy children.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

That the generation to come might know them, the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell them to their children,

Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants that is shed be known among the nations in our sight.

So that I swore in mine anger, that they should not enter into my rest.

And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy them.

Wherefore should the nations say, Where then is their God?

Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

How should we sing a song of Jehovah's upon a foreign soil?

Cause me to hear thy loving-kindness in the morning, for in thee do I confide; make me to know the way wherein I should walk, for unto thee do I lift up my soul.