Because you did not serve Jehovah your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things,

for then you shall have your delight in the Almighty, and lift up your face unto God.

For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For all His judgments were before me, and I did not put away His Statutes from me.

ALEPH: Blessed are the upright in the way, who walk in the Law of Jehovah.

Yea, they shall sing of the ways of Jehovah, for great is the glory of Jehovah.

Who is wise and discerns these things? Who is discerning and knows them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the righteous shall walk in them; but transgressors shall stumble in them.

and said, O full of all deceit and all mischief, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord?

for he removed the foreign altars and the high places, and broke down the sacred pillars and chopped down the groves.

But the high places were not removed from Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

Nevertheless good things have been found in you, in that you have burned the groves from the land, and have fixed your heart to seek God.

Nevertheless the high places were not taken away, for as yet the people had not fixed their hearts to the God of their fathers.

Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke the sacred pillars in pieces, chopped down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars; from all Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh; until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned to their own cities, each to his possession.

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the groves, the graven images, and the molten images.

He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem;

When he had broken down the altars and the groves, had beaten the carved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

And he walked in all the ways of his father Asa. He did not turn aside from them, doing what was right in the eyes of Jehovah. Nevertheless the high places were not taken away, for the people offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.