Remove from me reproach and contempt, For I have kept Your testimonies.

I cling to Your testimonies; O LORD, do not put me to shame!

Deliver me from all my transgressions; Do not make me the reproach of the foolish.

He shall send from heaven and save me; He reproaches the one who would swallow me up. Selah God shall send forth His mercy and His truth.

"However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also [who is] born to you shall surely die."

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

Therefore I desire that [the] younger [widows] marry, bear children, manage the house, give no opportunity to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you.

My soul breaks with longing For Your judgments at all times.

And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, For I have hoped in Your ordinances.

I know, O LORD, that Your judgments [are] right, And [that] in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

My eyes fail [from seeking] Your salvation And Your righteous word.

I opened my mouth and panted, For I longed for Your commandments.

The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the LORD [are] true [and] righteous altogether.

"And what great nation [is there] that has [such] statutes and righteous judgments as are in all this law which I set before you this day?

Yes, in the way of Your judgments, O LORD, we have waited for You; The desire of [our] soul [is] for Your name And for the remembrance of You.

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

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