Keepmy commandmentsand live,And my teachingas the appleof your eye.
Your testimoniesare righteousforever;Giveme understandingthat I may live.Qoph.
Keepme as the appleof the eye;Hideme in the shadowof Your wings
Takeholdof instruction;do not letgo.Guardher, for she is your life.
Do not let them departfrom your sight;Keepthem in the midstof your heart.
Then he taughtme and saidto me, "Let your heartholdfastmy words;Keepmy commandmentsand live;
"Inclineyour earand cometo Me. Listen,that you may live;And I will makean everlastingcovenantwith you, [According to] the faithfulmerciesshown to David.
But Jeremiahsaid,"They will not giveyou over. Pleaseobeythe LORDin whatI am sayingto you, that it may gowellwith you and you may live.
So you shall keepMy statutesand My judgments,by whicha manmay liveif he doesthem; I am the LORD.
For thussaysthe LORDof hosts,"AftergloryHe has sentme againstthe nationswhich plunderyou, for he who touchesyou, touchesthe appleof His eye.
"He who hasMy commandmentsand keepsthem is the onewho lovesMe; and he who lovesMe will be lovedby My Father,and I will lovehim and will discloseMyselfto him."
"You are My friendsifyou dowhatI commandyou.
"He foundhim in a desertland,And in the howlingwasteof a wilderness;He encircledhim, He caredfor him, He guardedhim as the pupilof His eye.
Blessedare thosewho washtheir robes,sothat they may have the rightto the treeof life,and may enterby the gatesinto the city.
