From Your precepts I get understanding;
Therefore I hate every false way.

Therefore I esteem right all Your precepts concerning everything,
I hate every false way.

I keep Your precepts and Your testimonies,
For all my ways are before You.

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways,
The Lord will lead them away with the doers of iniquity.
Peace be upon Israel.

A Song of Ascents.
How blessed is everyone who fears the Lord,
Who walks in His ways.

And they will sing of the ways of the Lord,
For great is the glory of the Lord.

You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.

And see if there be any hurtful way in me,
And lead me in the everlasting way.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,
You knew my path.
In the way where I walk
They have hidden a trap for me.

Let me hear Your lovingkindness in the morning;
For I trust in You;
Teach me the way in which I should walk;
For to You I lift up my soul.

The Lord is righteous in all His ways
And kind in all His deeds.

The Lord protects the strangers;
He supports the fatherless and the widow,
But He thwarts the way of the wicked.

My son, do not walk in the way with them.
Keep your feet from their path,

So are the ways of everyone who gains by violence;
It takes away the life of its possessors.

“So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way
And be satiated with their own devices.

Guarding the paths of justice,
And He preserves the way of His godly ones.

To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things;

From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To walk in the ways of darkness;

Whose paths are crooked,
And who are devious in their ways;

So you will walk in the way of good men
And keep to the paths of the righteous.

In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will make your paths straight.

Her ways are pleasant ways
And all her paths are peace.

Then you will walk in your way securely
And your foot will not stumble.

Do not envy a man of violence
And do not choose any of his ways.

I have directed you in the way of wisdom;
I have led you in upright paths.

Do not enter the path of the wicked
And do not proceed in the way of evil men.

The way of the wicked is like darkness;
They do not know over what they stumble.

Watch the path of your feet
And all your ways will be established.

She does not ponder the path of life;
Her ways are unstable, she does not know it.

Keep your way far from her
And do not go near the door of her house,

For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord,
And He watches all his paths.

Go to the ant, O sluggard,
Observe her ways and be wise,

For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light;
And reproofs for discipline are the way of life

Passing through the street near her corner;
And he takes the way to her house,

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways,
Do not stray into her paths.

Her house is the way to Sheol,
Descending to the chambers of death.

On top of the heights beside the way,
Where the paths meet, she takes her stand;

“The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;
Pride and arrogance and the evil way
And the perverted mouth, I hate.

“I walk in the way of righteousness,
In the midst of the paths of justice,

“The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His way,
Before His works of old.

“Now therefore, O sons, listen to me,
For blessed are they who keep my ways.

“Forsake your folly and live,
And proceed in the way of understanding.”

He who walks in integrity walks securely,
But he who perverts his ways will be found out.

The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the upright,
But ruin to the workers of iniquity.

The righteousness of the blameless will smooth his way,
But the wicked will fall by his own wickedness.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,
But a wise man is he who listens to counsel.

The righteous is a guide to his neighbor,
But the way of the wicked leads them astray.

In the way of righteousness is life,
And in its pathway there is no death.

Righteousness guards the one whose way is blameless,
But wickedness subverts the sinner.

Good understanding produces favor,
But the way of the treacherous is hard.

He who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord,
But he who is devious in his ways despises Him.

The wisdom of the sensible is to understand his way,
But the foolishness of fools is deceit.

There is a way which seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death.

The backslider in heart will have his fill of his own ways,
But a good man will be satisfied with his.

The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
But He loves one who pursues righteousness.

Grievous punishment is for him who forsakes the way;
He who hates reproof will die.

The way of the lazy is as a hedge of thorns,
But the path of the upright is a highway.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own sight,
But the Lord weighs the motives.

When a man’s ways are pleasing to the Lord,
He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

The mind of man plans his way,
But the Lord directs his steps.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil;
He who watches his way preserves his life.

There is a way which seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death.

A man of violence entices his neighbor
And leads him in a way that is not good.

A gray head is a crown of glory;
It is found in the way of righteousness.

A wicked man receives a bribe from the bosom
To pervert the ways of justice.

The foolishness of man ruins his way,
And his heart rages against the Lord.

“Bad, bad,” says the buyer,
But when he goes his way, then he boasts.

Man’s steps are ordained by the Lord,
How then can man understand his way?

Every man’s way is right in his own eyes,
But the Lord weighs the hearts.

The way of a guilty man is crooked,
But as for the pure, his conduct is upright.

A man who wanders from the way of understanding
Will rest in the assembly of the dead.

A wicked man displays a bold face,
But as for the upright, he makes his way sure.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;
He who guards himself will be far from them.

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

Or you will learn his ways
And find a snare for yourself.

Listen, my son, and be wise,
And direct your heart in the way.

Give me your heart, my son,
And let your eyes delight in my ways.

Like a trampled spring and a polluted well
Is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

He who leads the upright astray in an evil way
Will himself fall into his own pit,
But the blameless will inherit good.

The rod and reproof give wisdom,
But a child who gets his own way brings shame to his mother.

An unjust man is abominable to the righteous,
And he who is upright in the way is abominable to the wicked.

The way of an eagle in the sky,
The way of a serpent on a rock,
The way of a ship in the middle of the sea,
And the way of a man with a maid.

This is the way of an adulterous woman:
She eats and wipes her mouth,
And says, “I have done no wrong.”

Do not give your strength to women,
Or your ways to that which destroys kings.

She looks well to the ways of her household,
And does not eat the bread of idleness.

“Until the cool of the day
When the shadows flee away,
I will go my way to the mountain of myrrh
And to the hill of frankincense.

And many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
That He may teach us concerning His ways
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For the law will go forth from Zion
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

For thus the Lord spoke to me with mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

But there will be no more gloom for her who was in anguish; in earlier times He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but later on He shall make it glorious, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles.

Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts, “O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear the Assyrian who strikes you with the rod and lifts up his staff against you, the way Egypt did.

The Lord of hosts will arouse a scourge against him like the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and His staff will be over the sea and He will lift it up the way He did in Egypt.

Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out,
Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;
His soul trembles within him.

Send the tribute lamb to the ruler of the land,
From Sela by way of the wilderness to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

In that day,” declares the Lord of hosts, “the peg driven in a firm place will give way; it will even break off and fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut off, for the Lord has spoken.”

The way of the righteous is smooth;
O Upright One, make the path of the righteous level.

Indeed, while following the way of Your judgments, O Lord,
We have waited for You eagerly;
Your name, even Your memory, is the desire of our souls.

“Get out of the way, turn aside from the path,
Let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”

Your ears will hear a word behind you, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left.

A highway will be there, a roadway,
And it will be called the Highway of Holiness.
The unclean will not travel on it,
But it will be for him who walks that way,
And fools will not wander on it.

“Because of your raging against Me
And because your arrogance has come up to My ears,
Therefore I will put My hook in your nose
And My bridle in your lips,
And I will turn you back by the way which you came.