i1 [Maschil of Asaph.] i0 par Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; extend your ears to the words of my mouth.

which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a Law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should declare them to their children;

that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of the Mighty God, but keep His commandments;

The Law of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.

I have seen the end of all perfection, but Your Commandment is exceedingly broad.

You, through Your Commandments, make me wiser than my enemies; for they are always with me.

I understand more than the elders, because I keep Your Precepts.

He declares His Word unto Jacob, His Statutes and His justice unto Israel.

He has not dealt thus with any other nation; and they have not known His justice. Praise YAH!

And these Words which I am commanding you today shall be in your heart.

You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

It shall also be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this Law in a book, from the one that is before the priests, the Levites.

that his heart may not be lifted up above his brethren, that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left, and that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his sons in the midst of Israel.

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may take heed to do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

I have not departed from the Commandment of His lips; I have treasured the Words of His mouth more than my prescribed food.

Much in every way: chiefly because they were entrusted with the Words of God.

For whatever things were written before were written for our instruction, that we through the patience and encouragement of the Scriptures might have hope.

As for the Mighty God, His way is perfect; the Word of Jehovah is tested; He is a shield to all those who trust in Him.

The works of His hands are faithfulness and justice; all His precepts are sure.

He is the Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are justice, a Mighty God of truth and without injustice; righteous and upright is He.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no change or shadow of turning.

He restores my soul; He leads me in paths of righteousness because of His great name.

BETH: How can a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your Word.

Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted Word, which has the power to save your souls.

For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror;

But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in his deeds.

Your Testimonies are very sure; holiness befits Your house, O Jehovah, to the length of days.

I have rejoiced in the way of Your Testimonies, as much as in all riches.

Your Testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.

Your Testimonies I have taken as a heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

Concerning Your Testimonies, I have known of old that You have founded them forever.

Bind up the testimony, seal the Law among My disciples.

To the Law and to the Testimony! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because there is no light in them.

And what He has seen and heard, this He testifies; and no one receives His testimony.

He who has received His testimony has set his seal that God is true.

You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of Me.

To Him all the prophets witness that, through His name, everyone believing into Him will receive remission of sins.

Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but partake in the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God,

If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God which He has witnessed about His Son.

And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

And I fell at his feet to do homage to him. But he said to me, Look out! No! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Do homage to God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

The works of His hands are faithfulness and justice; all His precepts are sure.

Although my house is not so with the Mighty God, yet He has made with me a perpetual covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For all my salvation and all my desire, will He not make it grow?

Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands firm, having this seal: The Lord knows those who are His, and, Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters in within the veil,

The entrance of Your Words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man.

How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity; and those who scorn desire their scorning; and fools hate knowledge?

Turn back at my reproof; behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you; I will make my words known to you.

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.