Law

Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the Law.

On the second day of the month, the heads of all the families, along with the priests and Levites, gathered around Ezra the scribe to study the words of the Law.

And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month,

Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly, according to the ordinance.

While they stood in their places, they read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for a quarter of the day, and they spent another quarter of the day in confession and worship of the LORD their God.

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They turned a stubborn shoulder; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.

Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them.

“The rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the people of the land to obey the Law of God—along with their wives and all their sons and daughters who are able to understand,

…hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to obey carefully all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.

We have cast lots among the priests, Levites, and people for the donation of wood by our families at the appointed times each year. They are to bring it to the house of our God to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the Law.

And we will bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as it is written in the Law, and will bring the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God.

And on that same day men were appointed over the rooms that housed the supplies, contributions, firstfruits, and tithes. The portions specified by the Law for the priests and Levites were gathered into these storerooms from the fields of the villages, because Judah rejoiced over the priests and Levites who were serving.

As soon as the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all of foreign descent.

Then the king consulted the wise men who knew the times, for it was customary for him to confer with the experts in law and justice.

“According to law,” he asked, “what should be done with Queen Vashti, since she refused to obey the command of King Xerxes delivered by the eunuchs?”

But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering that gate.

“All the royal officials and the people of the king’s provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned—that he be put to death. Only if the king extends the gold scepter may that person live. But I have not been summoned to appear before the king for the past thirty days.”

“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”

But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.

But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.

The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.

The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not falter.

I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”

For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,

They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.

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

Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD.

Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.

Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law.

Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.

I will always obey Your law, forever and ever.

The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.

Rage has taken hold of me because of the wicked who reject Your law.

In the night, O LORD, I remember Your name, that I may keep Your law.

Though the ropes of the wicked bind me, I do not forget Your law.

Their hearts are callous and insensitive, but I delight in Your law.

The law from Your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight.

The arrogant have dug pits for me in violation of Your law.

If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.

Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.

I constantly take my life in my hands, yet I do not forget Your law.

The double-minded I despise, but Your law I love.

It is time for the LORD to act, for they have broken Your law.

My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.

Your righteousness is everlasting and Your law is true.

Those who follow after wickedness draw near; they are far from Your law.

Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.

I hate and abhor falsehood, but Your law I love.

Abundant peace belongs to those who love Your law; nothing can make them stumble.

I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.

A discerning son keeps the law, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.

Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.

Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; but blessed is he who keeps the Law.

And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Bind up the testimony and seal the law among my disciples.

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”

The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.

Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law.

Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.

Listen to Me, you who know what is right, you people with My law in your hearts: Do not fear the scorn of men; do not be broken by their insults.

The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.

How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?

And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.

Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”

And you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘If you do not listen to Me and walk in My law, which I have set before you,

“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

They came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law. They failed to perform all that You commanded them to do, and so You have brought upon them all this disaster.

Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

This is the law of the temple: All its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be most holy. Yes, this is the law of the temple.

This is the law of the temple: All its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be most holy. Yes, this is the law of the temple.

Finally these men said, “We will never find any charge against this Daniel unless we find something against him concerning the law of his God.”

Therefore, O king, establish the decree and sign the document so that it cannot be changed—in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed.”

So they approached the king and asked about his royal decree: “Did you not sign a decree that for thirty days any man who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions?” The king replied, “According to the law of the Medes and Persians the order stands, and it cannot be repealed.”

Then the men approached the king together and said to him, “Remember, O king, that by the law of the Medes and Persians no decree or ordinance established by the king can be changed.”

All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.

All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.

Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquities and giving attention to Your truth.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.

Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.

And many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.

They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.

“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”

“Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.

For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.

For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.

Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and yet are innocent?

One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question: