It is gladness for the just to do judgment; and it is dread for those who work iniquity.
Alleluia. Praise the Lord, children. Praise the name of the Lord.
All my enemies were whispering against me. They were thinking up evils against me.
The strength of the simple is the way of the Lord, and it is fear to those who work evil.
The just thinks carefully about the house of the impious, so that he may draw the impious away from evil.
A man who wanders astray from the way of doctrine will linger in the company of the giants.
Why are you seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and why are you kept warm by the bosom of another?
And I realize that there is nothing better than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.
You have met with those who rejoice in doing justice. By your ways, they will remember you. Behold, you have been angry, for we have sinned. In this, we have continued, but we will be saved.
And then will I disclose to them: 'I have never known you. Depart from me, you workers of iniquity.'
Jesus said to them: "My food is to do the will of the One who sent me, so that I may perfect his work.
For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inner man.