It is a joy for the just to do justice, But destruction will come to the workers of iniquity.
The way of the Lord is strength for the upright, But destruction will come to the workers of iniquity.
And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, Who remembers You in Your ways. You are indeed angry, for we have sinned— In these ways we continue; And we need to be saved.
I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives,
The righteous God wisely considers the house of the wicked, Overthrowing the wicked for their wickedness.
For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, Who delights greatly in His commandments.
I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law is within my heart.”
For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.
Unless Your law had been my delight, I would then have perished in my affliction.
A man who wanders from the way of understanding Will rest in the assembly of the dead.