תּוֹרָה

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.

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;

For I give you sound teaching; do not abandon my directive.

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,

Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning one from the snares of death.

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.

She opens her mouth with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.

Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

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.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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.

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

These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.

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.

Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.

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 you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.

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.

To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed My instruction or the statutes that I set before you and your fathers.

Because you burned incense and sinned against the LORD and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in His instruction, His statutes, and His testimonies, this disaster has befallen you, as you see today.”

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.

Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.

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.

…and if they are ashamed of all they have done, then make known to them the design of the temple—its arrangement and its exits and entrances—its whole design along with all its statutes, forms, and laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its complete design and all its statutes and may carry them out.

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.