- But let justice roll on like rivers,
and righteousness like a mighty stream. - There is no one as holy as Yahweh,
for there is no one besides you,
nor is there any rock like our God. - For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past,
like a watch in the night. - Like a city that is broken down and without walls
is a man whose spirit is without restraint. - “Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh:
“Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.
Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” - I spread out my hands to you.
My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah. - Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength.
He makes my feet like deer’s feet,
and enables me to go in high places. - A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
- My doctrine will drop as the rain.
My speech will condense as the dew,
as the misty rain on the tender grass,
as the showers on the herb. - But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
- Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
- The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels:
they go down into a person’s innermost parts. - I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions,
and, as a cloud, your sins.
Return to me, for I have redeemed you. - Like a father has compassion on his children,
so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him. - The rich man’s wealth is his strong city,
like an unscalable wall in his own imagination. - Why do you set your eyes on that which is not?
For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky. - Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
- The second is like this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.
- But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall.
- Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity,
and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage?
He doesn’t retain his anger forever,
because he delights in loving kindness. - Like water reflects a face,
so a man’s heart reflects the man. - Commit your way to Yahweh.
Trust also in him, and he will do this:
he will make your righteousness shine out like light,
and your justice as the noon day sun. - The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver.
The heart of the wicked is of little worth. - But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength.
They will mount up with wings like eagles.
They will run, and not be weary.
They will walk, and not faint. - Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him just as he is. Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!May Yahweh our God be with us as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us. You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.Next verse!With image