God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.

I ground them like wind-swept dust; I emptied them out like dirt in the street.

The mandates of Jehovah are straight, rejoicing the heart: the command of Jehovah pure, enlightening the eyes.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

Because of all my enemies I have become a reproach and disgrace,
Especially to my neighbors,
And an object of dread to my acquaintances;
Those who see me on the street run from me.

For straight the word of Jehovah, and all his work in faithfulness.

My wounds start to stink; they rot because of my foolishness.

And if he came to see -- vanity he speaketh, His heart gathereth iniquity to itself, He goeth out -- at the street he speaketh.

Mischiefs are in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.

O God! When thou camest forth before thy people, When thou didst stride through the wilderness, Selah.

Wherefore start ye up, ye mountains, ye peaks? The mountain God hath coveted for his habitation, Surely, Yahweh will inhabit it ever!

They set their mouths against heaven,
and their tongues strut across the earth.

He leveled a path for His anger [to give it free run];
He did not spare their souls from death,
But turned over their lives to the plague.

He looks down on the earth and it shakes; he touches the mountains and they start to smolder.

He led them also by a straight way, That they might go to a city of habitation.

Ye mountains, that ye start like rams? Ye hills, like the young of the flock?

Out of a strait, called I on Yah, He answered me with enlargement.

Thou hast given straight charge to keep thy commandments:

Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.

Though I walk straight into trouble, you preserve my life, stretching out your hand to fight the vehemence of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me.

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

The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.

Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places;

From such as leave the high street, and walk in the ways of darkness;

Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.

I am teaching you the way of wisdom;
I am guiding you on straight paths.

Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Her feet go down to death;
her steps head straight for Sheol.

Should your springs flow outside, or streams of water in the street?

Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

Now in the street, now in the square, {at} every corner she lies in wait.

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

Until an arrow pierced his liver [with a mortal wound];
Like a bird fluttering straight into the net,
He did not know that it would cost him his life.

All of them are straight to him who understands, and upright to those who find knowledge.

I walk in the way of righteousness, and in the street of judgment:

The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.

Forsake ye the foolish, and live; and go straight in the way of understanding.

The start of wisdom is fear of Yahweh, and knowledge of the Holy One, insight.

To call to those passing by the way, Who are going straight on their paths.

The righteousness of the blameless will smooth their way and keep it straight,
But the wicked will fall by his own wickedness.

The lazy one does not start after his game, but the wealth of a hard worker is precious.

There is a way which seems right to a man and appears straight before him,
But its end is the way of death.

He that forsaketh the right street, shall be sore punished; and whoso hateth correction, falleth into death.

The way of the slothful is full of thorns; but the street of the righteous is well cleansed.

Folly is joy to him that is void of wisdom; But a man of understanding maketh straight his going.

There is a way which seems right to a man and appears straight before him,
But its end is the way of death.

To start a conflict is to release a flood;
stop the dispute before it breaks out.

Also a youth shall be known by his doings, if pure and straight his work.

The way of the guilty is [exceedingly] crooked,
But as for the pure, his conduct is upright.

The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

A lazy person says "A lion in the street! In the middle of the highway, I shall be killed!"

For a harlot is a deep ditch, And a strange woman is a strait pit.

Thou hast been slothful in the day of straitness, Strait, is thy strength.

Prepare your work in the street and get it ready for yourself in the field; afterward, then you shall build your house.

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey,
And a rod for the backs of fools [who refuse to learn].

The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.

There are three things which are stately in step,
Even four which are stately in their stride:

That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

The end of a thing is better than its start, and a gentle spirit is better than pride.

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

Also of that which is high they are afraid, And of the low places in the way, And the almond-tree is despised, And the grasshopper is become a burden, And want is increased, For man is going unto his home age-during, And the mourners have gone round through the street.

The preacher sought to find words: of delight: and that written was straight, words of truth.

Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.

For I shall send him among those hypocritical people, among the people that have deserved my disfavour shall I send him: that he may utterly rob them, spoil them, and tread them down like the mire in the street.

In that day, shall Egypt be like unto women, - And shall start and tremble because of the brandishing of the hand of Yahweh of hosts, which he is about to brandish over it.

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah of hosts: Go, get thee in unto this steward, unto Shebna, who is over the house, and say,

"Come, go to this steward, to Shebna who is in charge of the household, and ask him: "What are you doing here, and who are your relatives here that you could carve out a grave for yourself here cutting out a tomb at the choicest location, chiseling out a resting place for yourself out of solid rock?

Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?

At the end of seventy years the Lord will revive Tyre. She will start making money again by selling her services to all the earth's kingdoms.

The way of the righteous [those in right-standing with God—living in moral and spiritual integrity] is smooth and level;
O Upright One, make a level path for the just and righteous.

“I have no wrath.
Should anyone give Me briars and thorns in battle,
I would step on them, I would set them all on fire.

In that day the Lord will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.

But as for you, don't start mocking, or your chains will become tighter; for I have heard from the LORD of the Heavenly Armies about destruction, and it is decreed against the whole land.

Everyone will start to stink because of a people [that] cannot profit them, not for help and not for profiting, but for shame and also for disgrace."

Look! Their heroes cry out [in the] street; [the] messengers of peace weep bitterly.

The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

Whose purpose and work was it? His who sent out the generations from the start. I the Lord, the first, and with the last, I am he.

Who has given knowledge of it from the first, so that we may be certain of it? and from the start, so that we may say, His word is true? There is no one who gives news, or says anything, or who gives ear to your words.

He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.

And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward, saith Jehovah of hosts.

Small profit have you had from those who, from your earliest days, got great profit out of you; they have gone in flight, every one straight before him, and you have no saviour.

Come near to me, and give ear to this; from the start I did not keep it secret; from the time of its coming into existence I was there: and now the Lord God has sent me, and given me his spirit.

For, as for thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy land that hath been destroyed, surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

Look, all of you who start a fire and who equip yourselves with flaming arrows, walk in the light of the fire you started and among the flaming arrows you ignited! This is what you will receive from me: you will lie down in a place of pain.

Your children have fainted;
they lie at the head of every street
like an antelope in a net.
They are full of the Lord’s fury,
the rebuke of your God.

But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

He enters into peace [through death];
They rest in their beds (graves),
Each one who walked uprightly [following God’s will, living with integrity].

Thou wentest straight to kings with oil and divers ointments - that is, thou hast sent thy messengers far off, and yet art thou fallen into the pit thereby.

And therefore thus he sayeth, "Make ready, make ready, and clean the street, take up what ye can out of the way that leadeth to my people."

They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.

And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

When has such a story come to men's ears? who has seen such things? will a land come to birth in one day? will a nation be given birth in a minute? For when Zion's pains came on her, she gave birth to her children straight away.

And what hast thou now to do in the street of Egypt? To drink foul water? Either, what makest thou in the way to Assyria? To drink water of the flood?