Mercy and faith have come together; righteousness and peace have given one another a kiss.

Faith comes up from the earth like a plant; righteousness is looking down from heaven.

The seat of your kingdom is resting on righteousness and right judging: mercy and good faith come before your face.

Let my prayer come to you, O Lord; give ear to my requests for your grace; keep faith with me, and give me an answer in your righteousness;

And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast.

And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.

Give ear to me, you feeble-hearted, who have no faith in my righteousness:

And you will take your oath, By the living Lord, in good faith and wisdom and righteousness; and the nations will make use of you as a blessing, and in you will they take a pride.

When I say to the upright that life will certainly be his; if he puts his faith in his righteousness and does evil, not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory; but in the evil he has done, death will overtake him.

And I will make them come and be living in Jerusalem and they will be to me a people and I will be to them a God, in good faith and in righteousness.

Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.

Your righteousness has not been folded away in my heart; I have made clear your true word and your salvation; I have not kept secret your mercy or your faith from the great meeting.

The works of his hands are faith and righteousness; all his laws are unchanging.

They are fixed for ever and ever, they are done in faith and righteousness.

Before the Lord, for he is come; he is come to be the judge of the earth; the earth will be judged in righteousness, and the peoples with unchanging faith.

And he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as righteousness.

He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.

And the Lord will give to every man the reward of his righteousness and his faith: because the Lord gave you into my hands today, and I would not put out my hand against the man who has been marked with the holy oil.

Give the offerings of righteousness, and put your faith in the Lord.

Your righteousness is an unchanging righteousness, and your law is certain.

He who goes after righteousness and mercy will get life, righteousness, and honour.

Let righteousness come down, O heavens, from on high, and let the sky send it down like rain: let the earth be open to give the fruit of salvation, causing righteousness to come up with it; I the Lord have made it come about.

In those days and at that time, I will let a Branch of righteousness come up for David; and he will be a judge in righteousness in the land.

And you, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the upright man will not make him safe in the day when he does wrong; and the evil-doing of the evil man will not be the cause of his fall in the day when he is turned from his evil-doing; and the upright man will not have life because of his righteousness in the day when he does evil.

Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.

Righteousness will go before him, making a way for his footsteps.

May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?

In your name will they have joy all the day: in your righteousness will they be lifted up.

But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.

Keep me safe in your righteousness, and come to my help; give ear to my voice, and be my saviour.

My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.

I will give news of the great acts of the Lord God; my words will be of your righteousness, and of yours only.

Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you?

My tongue will be talking of your righteousness all the day; for those whose purpose is to do me evil have been crushed and put to shame.

Give the king your authority, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son.

May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor.

May the mountains give peace to the people, and the hills righteousness.

As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

When the right time has come, I will be the judge in righteousness.

To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:

Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

See how great is my desire for your orders: give me life in your righteousness.

My eyes are wasted with desire for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.

O Lord, great is your righteousness, and upright are your decisions.

You have given your unchanging word in righteousness, and it is for ever.

The righteousness of your unchanging word is eternal; give me wisdom so that I may have life.

Let my tongue make songs in praise of your word; for all your teachings are righteousness.

The righteousness of the upright will be their guide, but the twisted ways of the false will be their destruction.

Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.

The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.

The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs.

A woman who is full of grace is honoured, but a woman hating righteousness is a seat of shame: those hating work will undergo loss, but the strong keep their wealth.

The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.

So righteousness gives life; but he who goes after evil gets death for himself.

The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, but violent behaviour takes away souls.

The breathing out of true words gives knowledge of righteousness; but a false witness gives out deceit.

In the road of righteousness is life, but the way of the evil-doer goes to death.

Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

He who goes on his way in righteousness has before him the fear of the Lord; but he whose ways are twisted gives him no honour.

The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.

By righteousness a nation is lifted up, but sin is a cause of shame to the peoples.

The way of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but he who goes after righteousness is dear to him.

Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.

Evil-doing is disgusting to kings: for the seat of the ruler is based on righteousness.

Lips of righteousness are the delight of kings; and he who says what is upright is dear to him.

All the words of my mouth are righteousness; there is nothing false or twisted in them.

Through me chiefs have authority, and the noble ones are judging in righteousness.

Wealth and honour are in my hands, even wealth without equal and righteousness.

I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:

Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.

Take away evil-doers from before the king, and the seat of his power will be made strong in righteousness.

The grey head is a crown of glory, if it is seen in the way of righteousness.

To give punishment to the upright is not good, or to give blows to the noble for their righteousness.

An upright man goes on in his righteousness: happy are his children after him!

And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.

These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.

Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?

There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.

For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, only a small number will come back: for the destruction is fixed, overflowing in righteousness.

Then a king's seat will be based on mercy, and one will be seated on it in the tent of David for ever; judging uprightly, and quick to do righteousness.

The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.

And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town.

Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there.

For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.

But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy God is seen to be holy in righteousness.

Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.

Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.

See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions.

Then in the waste land there will be an upright rule, and righteousness will have its place in the fertile field.

And the work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of an upright rule will be to take away fear for ever.

The Lord is lifted up; his place is on high: he has made Zion full of righteousness and true religion.

In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.

Even if you are kind to the evil-doer, he will not go after righteousness; even in the land of the upright he will still go on in his wrongdoing, and will not see the glory of the Lord.

And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters.

For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.

Give ear to me, you who are searching for righteousness, who are looking for the Lord: see the rock from which you were cut out, and the hole out of which you were taken.

Suddenly will my righteousness come near, and my salvation will be shining out like the light; the sea-lands will be waiting for me, and they will put their hope in my strong arm.

Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat, and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come to an end.

Give ear to me, you who have knowledge of righteousness, in whose heart is my law; have no fear of the evil words of men, and give no thought to their curses.