'Paths' in the Bible

In the days of Shamgar son of Anath -- In the days of Jael -- The ways have ceased, And those going in the paths go in crooked ways.

Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.

So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,

My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.

On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.

He doth put in the stocks my feet, He doth watch all my paths.'

That thou dost take it unto its boundary, And that thou dost understand The paths of its house.

Bird of the heavens, and fish of the sea, Passing through the paths of the seas!

As to doings of man, Through a word of Thy lips I have observed The paths of a destroyer;

To uphold my goings in Thy paths, My steps have not slidden.

My soul He refresheth, He leadeth me in paths of righteousness, For His name's sake,

Thy ways, O Jehovah, cause me to know, Thy paths teach Thou me.

All the paths of Jehovah are kindness and truth, To those keeping His covenant, And His testimonies.

Thou hast crowned the year of Thy goodness, And Thy paths drop fatness.

In the sea is Thy way, And Thy paths are in many waters, And Thy tracks have not been known.

In Thy precepts I meditate, And I behold attentively Thy paths.

So are the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.

To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth.

Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,

Whose paths are crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.

For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.

None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep.

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

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.

In a way of wisdom I have directed thee, I have caused thee to tread in paths of uprightness.

The path of life -- lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths -- thou knowest not.

For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.

Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths,

At the head of high places by the way, Between the paths she hath stood,

In a path of righteousness I cause to walk, In midst of paths of judgment,

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

A bribe from the bosom the wicked taketh, To turn aside the paths of judgment.

Lest thou learn his paths, And have received a snare to thy soul.

And gone have many peoples and said, 'Come, and we go up unto the mount of Jehovah, Unto the house of the God of Jacob, And He doth teach us of His ways, And we walk in His paths, For from Zion goeth forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

My people -- its exactors are sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.

And I have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I cause them to tread, I make a dark place before them become light, And unlevelled places become a plain, These are the things I have done to them, And I have not forsaken them.

And they have built out of thee the wastes of old, The foundations of many generations thou raisest up, And one calleth thee, 'Repairer of the breach, Restorer of paths to rest in.'

A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.

Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where is this -- the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, 'We do not go.'

But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways -- paths of old, To walk in paths -- a way not raised up,

He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.

Now, I, Nebuchadnezzar, am praising and exalting and honouring the King of the heavens, for all His works are truth, and His paths judgment, and those walking in pride He is able to humble.'

Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.

As mighty ones they run, As men of war they go up a wall, And each in his own ways they do go, And they embarrass not their paths.

And gone have many nations and said, Come and we go up to the mount of Jehovah, And unto the house of the God of Jacob, And He doth teach us of His ways, And we do walk in His paths, For from Zion doth go forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.