Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have sought out Your testimonies.

I have cleaved to Your testimonies, O Lord; put me not to shame.

Deliver me from all my transgressions; You have made me a reproach to the foolish.

He sent from heaven and saved me; He reproached them that trampled on me; God has sent forth His mercy and His truth;

Only because you have given great occasion of provocation to the enemies of the Lord by this thing, your son also that is born to you shall surely die.

Moreover he must have a good testimony among those outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Therefore I desire that the younger widows to marry, to bear children, to manage the house, to give no opportunity to the adversary because of reproach.

sound speech that cannot be condemned, in order that the [one] who is an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.

My soul has longed exceedingly for Your judgments at all times.

And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in Your judgments.

I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are righteousness, and [that] You in truthfulness have afflicted me.

My eyes have failed for Your salvation, and for the word of Your righteousness.

I opened my mouth, and drew breath; for I earnestly longed after Your commandments.

The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever and ever: the judgments of the Lord are true, [and] justified altogether.

And what manner of nation [is so] great, which has righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law, which I set before you this day?

For the way of the Lord is judgment; we have hoped in Your name, and on the remembrance [of You],

But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those practicing such things.

For true and righteous are His judgments, for He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He has avenged the blood of His servants [shed] by her hand."