I will lift my hands to your commands, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes. ז (Zayin)
He went out to relax in the field in the early evening. Then he looked up and saw that there were camels approaching.
Instead he finds pleasure in obeying the Lord’s commands; he meditates on his commands day and night.
Rise up, Lord! O God, strike him down! Do not forget the oppressed!
I will meditate on your precepts and focus on your behavior.
O how I love your law! All day long I meditate on it.
Because they used to minister to them before their idols, and became a sinful obstacle to the house of Israel, consequently I have made a vow concerning them, declares the sovereign Lord, that they will be responsible for their sin.
Lift your hand triumphantly against your adversaries; may all your enemies be destroyed!
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven – only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
If you understand these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.