With my lips I have recounted All the right-rulings of Your mouth.
Let me not die, but live, And declare the works of Yah.
My tongue sings of Your word, For all Your commands are righteousness.
That I might speak of Your witnesses before sovereigns, And not be ashamed;
For all His right-rulings are before me, And I did not turn from His laws.
Come, you children, listen to me; Let me teach you the fear of יהוה.
The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, And his tongue talks of right-ruling.
So as to watch over discretion, And your lips guard knowledge.
“What I say to you in the dark, speak in the light. And what you hear in the ear, proclaim on the house-tops.
“Brood of adders! How are you able to speak what is good – being wicked? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.
“For it is impossible for us not to speak of what we saw and heard.”
“And these Words which I am commanding you today shall be in your heart,
and you shall impress them upon your children, and shall speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up,