For, lo, Your enemies, O Jehovah; for lo, Your enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

Blessed is the man whom You chasten, O Jehovah, to teach him out of Your Law;

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with You, which frames mischief by a law?

The sun rises; they are gathered, and go to their dens to lie down.

and He confirmed it to Jacob for a Law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

Let the money-lender lay a snare for all that is his; and let strangers take the fruit of his labor.

Jehovah keeps the simple; I was brought low, and He helped me.

ALEPH: Blessed are the upright in the way, who walk in the Law of Jehovah.

Open my eyes, so that I may behold wonderful 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 all my heart.

And I shall keep Your Law continually forever and ever.

The proud have utterly scorned me; yet I have not turned aside from Your Law.

Horror has taken hold on me because of the wicked who forsake Your Law.

I have remembered Your name, O Jehovah, 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; I will keep Your Commandments with all my heart.

Their heart is without feeling, like fat; but I delight in Your Law.

The Law of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.

Let Your tender mercies come to me so that I may live; for Your Law is my delight.

The proud have dug pits for me, which are not according to Your Law.

Unless Your Law had been my delight, I should then have perished in my affliction.

MEM: Oh how I love Your Law! It is my meditation all the day.

My life is in my hand daily; yet I do not forget Your Law.

SAMECH: I hate half-hearted thoughts; but Your Law do I love.

It is time for Jehovah to work; for they have broken Your Law.

Rivers of water run down my eyes, because they do not keep Your Law.

Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Your Law is the truth.

They draw near, those who follow after wickedness; they are far from Your Law.

RESH: Look on my affliction, and deliver me; for I do not forget Your Law.

I hate and despise lying; but I love Your Law.

Great peace is to those who love Your Law, and there is no stumbling block for them.

I have longed for Your salvation, O Jehovah; and Your Law is my delight.

Lo, children are the inheritance of Jehovah; the fruit of the womb is a reward.

Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah; we found it in the fields of the wood.

Who remembered us in our low estate; for His mercy endures forever;

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

Hear my cry; for I am brought very low; deliver me from my pursuers; 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, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause;

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

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

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her; and happy is everyone who keeps 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 teaching; do not forsake my law.

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down;

My son, keep your father's commandments, and do not forsake 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;

Keep my commandments and live; and keep my law as the pupil of your eye.

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 speak lies.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may lay itself bare.

Wicked one, do not lie in ambush at the dwelling of the righteous; do not spoil his resting place;

and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face of it, and its stone wall was broken down.

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down;

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law plead against them.

Whoever keeps the law is a wise son, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is a hateful thing.

Where there is no vision, the people perish; but he who keeps the law, he is blessed.

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

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

lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

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

I spoke within my own heart, saying, Lo, I have become great and have gathered more wisdom than all that have been before me in Jerusalem; yea, my heart has seen much of wisdom and knowledge.

I sought in my heart to drag my flesh with wine, yet leading my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, until I might see where the good for the sons of men might be, what they should do under the heavens all the days of their life.

Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; 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 I have found, that God has made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions.

foolishness 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 you shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music are silenced;

Tell me, You whom my soul loves, where do You feed, where do You lie down at noon? For why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of Your companions?

A bundle of myrrh is my Beloved to me. He shall lie all night between my breasts.

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over; it goes to itself.

Hear the Word of Jehovah, rulers of Sodom; give ear to the Law of our God, people of Gomorrah.

And I will turn back My hand on you, and purge away your dross as with lye, and take away all your alloy.

And many people shall go and say, Come, and let us go to the mountain of Jehovah, 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 out the Law, and the Word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

For the day of Jehovah of Hosts shall be on every proud and lofty one, and on every lifted up one; and he shall be brought low,

And the pride of man shall be bowed down, and the loftiness of men shall be made low; and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.

And the people shall be crushed, every man by another, and every man by his neighbor; the boy shall act proudly against the old man, and the low against the honorable.

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

So, as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame burns up the chaff; their root shall be like rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up like dust, because they have cast away the Law of Jehovah 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; for, they shall roar and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea; and one looks to the land, behold darkness, and lo, darkness! Distress! And the light shall be darkened by its clouds.

And he laid it on 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 do not speak according to this Word, it is because no light is in them.

Also the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the cub 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 fly on the shoulders of the Philistines to the west; they shall spoil the sons of the east together; they shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab; and the sons of Ammon shall obey them.

Behold, the day of Jehovah comes, cruel and with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land waste; and He shall destroy its sinners out of it.

And I will visit evil on the world, and their iniquity on the wicked. And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the pride of tyrants.

It shall never be inhabited forever, nor shall it be lived in from generation to generation; nor shall the Arabian pitch his tent there; nor shall the shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

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

All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

And the first-born 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; now they are for flocks; they shall lie down, and no one terrifies them.

Then, lo, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine, saying, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!

And the key of the house of David I will lay on 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 foreigners, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of cloud. The shouting of the terrifying ones shall be brought low.