And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:

Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

The LORD preserves the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.

[Aleph] Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me your law graciously.

Give me understanding, and I shall keep your law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

So shall I keep your law continually forever and ever.

The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not turned from your law.

Horror has taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake your law.

I have remembered your name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept your law.

The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten your law.

The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep your precepts with my whole heart.

Their heart is as gross as grease; but I delight in your law.

The law of your mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

Let your tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for your law is my delight.

The proud have dug pits for me, which is not after your law.

Unless your law had been my delights, I should then have perished in my affliction.

[Mem] O how love I your law! it is my meditation all the day.

My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget your law.

[Samek] I hate vain thoughts: but your law do I love.

It is time for you, LORD, to work: for they have made void your law.

Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not your law.

Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is the truth.

They draw near that follow after evil: they are far from your law.

[Resh] Consider my affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget your law.

I hate and abhor lying: but your law do I love.

Great peace have they who love your law: and nothing shall offend them.

I have longed for your salvation, O LORD; and your law is my delight.

Lo, children are a heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Lo, we heard of it at Ephrathah: we found it in the fields of the woods.

Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endures forever:

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether.

Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:

If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause:

And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

My son, if you will receive my words, and lay up my commandments with you;

My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is everyone that retains her.

When you lie down, you shall not be afraid: yea, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet.

For I give you good doctrine, forsake not my law.

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you.

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of your eye.

Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

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

A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

Lie not in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and weeds had covered its face, and its stone wall was broken down.

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

Whosoever keeps the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of gluttonous men shames his father.

He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law, happy is he.

A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.

If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, lay your hand upon your mouth.

Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice of any of the afflicted.

She opens her mouth with wisdom; and on her tongue is the law of kindness.

I communed with my own heart, saying, Lo, I have come to greatness, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

I sought in my heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men, which they should do under heaven all the days of their life.

Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

Lo, this only have I found, that God has made man upright; but they have sought out many devices.

Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

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

A bundle of myrrh is my beloved unto me; he shall lie all night between my breasts.

For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

And many people shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

For the day of the LORD of hosts shall come upon everyone that is proud and lofty, and upon everyone that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dug; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may dwell alone in the midst of the earth!

Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safely, and none shall deliver it.

And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged.

Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

But they shall swoop down upon the shoulders of the Philistines in the west; they shall plunder together them of the east: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy its sinners out of it.

And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the ruthless.

But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of howling creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.

Yea, the cypress trees rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you were laid low, no hewer has come up against us.

All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, everyone in his own tomb.

And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill your root with famine, and he shall slay your remnant.

The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

You shall bring down the noise of aliens, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the song of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

And the fortress of the high fort of your walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

For he brings down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it low; he lays it low, even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust.

Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and strip its branches.

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not be in haste.

And I will encamp against you round about, and will lay siege against you with a mound, and I will raise siegeworks against you.

And you shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out of the dust, and your voice shall be, as of one that is a medium, out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.