Come, you children, give heed to me; I will teach you the fear of Jehovah.

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile.

i1 [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah.] i0 par The transgression of the wicked declares within my heart: There is no fear of God before his eyes.

He will bless those who fear Jehovah, both small and great.

And He said, Do not lay your hand upon the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only one from Me.

And Joseph said to them the third day, Do this and live, for I fear God:

Only fear Jehovah, and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.

And Ahab summoned Obadiah, who was in charge of his house. (Now Obadiah feared Jehovah greatly.

For so it was, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah had taken one hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty to a cave, and had fed them with bread and water.)

And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of Jehovah will carry you to a place I do not know; so when I go and tell Ahab, and he cannot find you, he will kill me. But I your servant have feared Jehovah from my youth.

But the former governors who had been before me were heavy on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people, but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, one who fears God and has a good reputation among all the nation of the Jews, was divinely instructed by a holy angel to summon you to his house, and to hear words from you.

As it is written: There is none righteous, no, not one;

They have all turned aside; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one.

whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

destruction and misery are in their ways;

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all those who do His commandments. His praise stands eternally.

Praise YAH! Blessed is the man who fears Jehovah, who delights greatly in His Commandments.

Wealth and riches will be in his house, and his righteousness stands forever.

A good man deals graciously and lends; he will guide his affairs with justice.

His ways are always twisted; Your judgments are high, out of his sight. As for all his enemies, he snorts at them.

Your righteousness is like the great mountains; Your judgments are a great deep; O Jehovah, You deliver man and beast.

i1 [A Psalm for Solomon.] i0 par Give the king Your justice, O God, and Your righteousness to the king's Son.

He will judge Your people in righteousness, and Your lowly with justice.

I will give thanks unto You with uprightness of heart, when I learn Your righteous Judgments.

Turn away my reproach which I have dreaded, for Your Justice is good.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You, because of Your righteous judgments.

I know, O Jehovah, that Your judgments are right, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

I have sworn and will fulfill, that I will keep Your righteous judgments.

TZADDI: Righteous are You, O Jehovah, and upright are Your judgments.

Your Testimonies, which You have commanded, are righteous and very faithful.

Your righteousness is an eternal righteousness, and Your Law is truth.

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

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

Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them:

And what great nation is there that has such statutes and righteous judgments as are in all this Law which I am setting before you this day?

Yea, in the way of Your judgments, O Jehovah, we have waited for You; for the desire of our soul is Your name and the remembrance of You.

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

Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: On those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.

And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints.

And I heard another out of the altar saying, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments.

For true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her sexual perversities; and He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her.