O Israel, hope in LORD from this time forth and for evermore.

LORD has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: From the fruit of thy body I will set upon thy throne.

who causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain, who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries,

and brought out Israel from among them, for his loving kindness [is] forever,

and has delivered us from our adversaries, for his loving kindness [is] forever,

For though LORD is high, yet he has respect to the lowly. But he knows the haughty from afar.

Where shall I go from thy Spirit? Or where shall I flee from thy presence?

even the darkness hides not from thee, but the night shines as the day. The darkness and the light are both alike [to thee].

My frame was not hidden from thee, when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

Surely thou will kill the wicked, O God. Depart from me therefore, ye bloodthirsty men.

Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man,

Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of a wicked man. Preserve me from violent men, who have purposed to thrust aside my steps.

Let burning coals fall upon them. Let them be cast into the fire, into deep pits, from where they shall not rise.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I.

Make haste to answer me, O LORD, my spirit fails. Hide not thy face from me, lest I become like those who go down into the pit.

Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies. I flee to thee to hide me.

Stretch forth thy hand from above. Rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of aliens,

Thou are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David his servant from the hurtful sword.

Praise ye LORD. Praise ye LORD from the heavens. Praise him in the heights.

Praise LORD from the earth, ye sea-monsters, and all deeps,

My son, walk not thou in the way with them. Restrain thy foot from their path.

to deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

to deliver thee from the interloping woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words,

But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.

Be not wise in thine own eyes. Fear LORD, and depart from evil.

My son, let them not depart from thine eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion,

For LORD will be thy confidence, and will keep thy foot from being taken.

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it.

Get wisdom, get understanding. Do not forget, nor decline from the words of my mouth.

Avoid it. Do not pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

Let them not depart from thine eyes. Keep them in the midst of thy heart.

Put away from thee a wayward mouth, and put perverse lips far from thee.

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left. Remove thy foot from evil.

Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

Remove thy way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house,

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger's tongue.

that they may keep thee from the interloping woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was,

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

The law of a wise man is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul, but it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil.

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man from his own fruits.

A wise man fears, and departs from evil, but the fool bears himself insolently, and is confident.

The fear of LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

To the wise man the way of life [is] upward, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from LORD.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of LORD men depart from evil.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.

He who rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from LORD.

Wealth adds many friends, but a poor man is separated from his friend.

All the brothers of a poor man hate him, how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues [with] words, [but] they are gone.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from LORD.

To err from the words of knowledge, cease, my son, to hear instruction.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarrelling.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean. I am pure from my sin?

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven to and fro by those who seek death.

He who keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

The horse is prepared against the day of battle, but victory is from LORD.

Thorns [and] snares are in the way of a perverse man. He who keeps his soul shall be far from them.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

If thou have not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

lest LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

For their calamity shall rise suddenly, and the destruction from them both, who knows it?

These also are from the wise: To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.

Take away the dross from the silver, and there comes forth a vessel for the refiner.

Take away the wicked [from] before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

[As] cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.

Though thou should pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

He who brings up his servant gently from childhood shall have him become a son at the last.

Many seek the ruler's favor, but a man's justice [is] from LORD.

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,

There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes, and [yet] are not washed from their filthiness.

There is a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw teeth, knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

The lion, which is mightiest among beasts, and turns not away from any,

She is like the merchant ships: she brings her bread from afar.

What profit has man from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place from where the rivers come, there they go again.

I made for me pools of water, to water from there the forest where trees were reared.

And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them. I did not withhold my heart from any joy. For my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

There is nothing better for a man [than] that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing,

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

I know that, whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it. And God has done it that men should fear before him.

As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

It is good that thou should take hold of this, yea, also from that withdraw not thy hand. For he who fears God shall come forth from them all.

All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.

And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

So I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were praised in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceeds from the ruler:

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened [by] the masters of assemblies. They have been given from one shepherd.

Sustain ye me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am sick from love.