With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
I will not die, but live, and declare the LORD's works.
Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your mitzvot are righteousness.
I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.
For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his statutes from me.
Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.
that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.
What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
for we can't help telling the things which we saw and heard.*
These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart;
and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.