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He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.

For Your loving devotion reaches to the heavens, and Your faithfulness to the clouds.

May he sit enthroned in God’s presence forever; appoint Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness to guard him.

But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.

So I will praise You with the harp for Your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praise to You with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.

Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.

Faithfulness sprouts from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven.

Teach me Your way, O LORD, that I may walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.

But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; loving devotion and faithfulness go before You.

He will cover you with His feathers; under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and rampart.

For Your loving devotion extends beyond the heavens, and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

The works of His hands are truth and justice; all His precepts are trustworthy.

They are upheld forever and ever, enacted in truth and uprightness.

Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name be the glory, because of Your loving devotion, because of Your faithfulness.

For great is His loving devotion toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Hallelujah!

Never take Your word of truth from my mouth, for I hope in Your judgments.

Your righteousness is everlasting and Your law is true.

You are near, O LORD, and all Your commandments are true.

The entirety of Your word is truth, and all Your righteous judgments endure forever.

The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.

I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all else.

The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.

…the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever.

Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

For my mouth will speak the truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.

The wicked man earns an empty wage, but he who sows righteousness reaps a true reward.

Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.

Do not those who contrive evil go astray? But those who plan goodness find loving devotion and faithfulness.

A truthful witness saves lives, but one who utters lies is deceitful.

By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns aside from evil.

Loving devotion and faithfulness preserve a king; by these he maintains his throne.

…to show you true and reliable words, that you may soundly answer those who sent you?

Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.

A king who judges the poor with fairness—his throne will be established forever.

The Teacher searched to find delightful sayings and to record accurate words of truth.

On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

…in loving devotion a throne will be established in the tent of David. A judge seeking justice and hastening righteousness will sit on it in faithfulness.

…saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.

But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “At least there will be peace and security in my lifetime.”

A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.

All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and proclaim to us the former things? Let them present their witnesses to vindicate them, so that others may hear and say, “It is true.”

“Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, who have descended from the line of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, who invoke the God of Israel—but not in truth or righteousness—

So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.

Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.

For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.

I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?