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You reject all who stray from Your statutes, for their deceitfulness is in vain.

Deal with Your servant according to Your loving devotion, and teach me Your statutes.

Make Your face shine upon Your servant, and teach me Your statutes.

I call with all my heart; answer me, O LORD! I will obey Your statutes.

Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.

My lips pour forth praise, for You teach me Your statutes.

He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.

He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away.

…when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.

Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.

She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.

Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!

The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.

Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.

“Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”

Then I took the deed of purchase—the sealed copy with its terms and conditions, as well as the open copy—

Then you will know that I am the LORD. For you have neither followed My statutes nor practiced My ordinances, but you have conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.”

Therefore I stretched out My hand against you and reduced your portion. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd conduct.

In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.

And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.

The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor (a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer).

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.

The day for rebuilding your walls will come—the day for extending your boundary.

…before the decree takes effect and the day passes like chaff, before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the Day of the LORD’s anger comes upon you.

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”

Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’

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