- A man’s heart plans his course,
but Yahweh directs his steps. - Commit your deeds to Yahweh,
and your plans shall succeed. - Where there is no counsel, plans fail;
but in a multitude of counselors they are established. - There are many plans in a man’s heart,
but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail. - “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.”
- May he grant you your heart’s desire,
and fulfill all your counsel. - Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing,
unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets. - Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me.
Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever.
Don’t forsake the works of your own hands. - Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.
- Seek Yahweh and his strength.
Seek his face forever more. - Seek Yahweh and his strength.
Seek his face forever more. - He will cover you with his feathers.
Under his wings you will take refuge.
His faithfulness is your shield and rampart. - Yahweh will give strength to his people.
Yahweh will bless his people with peace. - Yahweh is righteous in all his ways,
and gracious in all his works. - Yahweh preserves the foreigners.
He upholds the fatherless and widow,
but he turns the way of the wicked upside down. - He who guards his mouth guards his soul.
One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. - That I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death.
- Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name!
Make his doings known among the peoples. - In that day you will say, “Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Declare his doings among the peoples! Proclaim that his name is exalted!”
- When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished!” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
- I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips.
I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. - And keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn yourself.
- Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime.
In the night his song shall be with me:
a prayer to the God of my life. - Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.
- For this cause a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife. Then the two will become one flesh.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you.
Bind them around your neck.
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
So you will find favor,
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