Not only do I love your commands, but I also honor them. I will study your laws.
I will study your instructions. I will give thought to your way of life.
Instead, they love the Lord’s teachings and think about them day and night.
“Not everyone who calls me Lord will enter God’s kingdom. The only people who will enter are those who do what my Father in heaven wants.
You are my friends if you do what I tell you to do.
If you know these things, great blessings will be yours if you do them.
You will lift your hand against your enemies, and you will destroy them.
But the Levites helped the people sin against me! They helped the people worship their idols! So I am making this promise against them: ‘They will be punished for their sin.’” This is what the Lord GOD said.
Lord, get up and do something. Punish those who are wicked, God. Don’t forget those who are poor and helpless.
One evening he went out to the field to think. He looked up and saw the camels coming from far away.
Oh, how I love your teachings! I talk about them all the time.