I will praise You with uprightness of heart, When I learn Your righteous judgments.

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

Therefore all [Your] precepts [concerning] all [things] I consider [to be] right; I hate every false way.

The entirety of Your word [is] truth, And every one of Your righteous judgments [endures] forever.

[He is] the Rock, His work [is] perfect; For all His ways [are] justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright [is] He.

For He need not further consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment.

Righteous [are] You, O LORD, when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about [Your] judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? [Why] are those happy who deal so treacherously?

"Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"

Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: "That You may be justified in Your words, And may overcome when You are judged."

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? [Is] God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.)

All the paths of the LORD [are] mercy and truth, To such as keep His covenant and His testimonies.

"If his sons forsake My law And do not walk in My judgments,

Then I will punish their transgression with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes.

For they indeed for a few days chastened [us] as seemed [best] to them, but He for [our] profit, that [we] may be partakers of His holiness.

Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

"As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.