When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.
The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless, but destruction to evildoers.
And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
You meet him who joyfully works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?
I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;
The Righteous One observes the house of the wicked; he throws the wicked down to ruin.
Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.
Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments!
I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”
For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
One who wanders from the way of good sense will rest in the assembly of the dead.