O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
How can young people keep their way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
I do not turn away from your ordinances, for you have taught me.
Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for me.
singing aloud a song of thanksgiving and telling all your wondrous deeds.
David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity,
“See, just as the Lord my God has charged me, I now teach you statutes and ordinances for you to observe in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.
But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, to tell of all your works.