And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in your rules.
When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
Let my soul live and praise you, and let your rules help me.
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
When I think of your rules from of old, I take comfort, O Lord.
With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth.
My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments.
O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.
But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?
Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!
The Lord has made himself known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah
For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.
Arise, O Lord, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment. Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high. The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me. Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!
“And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord: “My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children's offspring,” says the Lord, “from this time forth and forevermore.”
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