I reach out my hands for Your mitzvot, which I love, and meditate on Your decrees.
Isaac went out to meditate strolling in the field at dusk. Then he lifted up his eyes and saw, behold, camels were coming.
But his delight is in the Torah of Adonai, and on His Torah he meditates day and night.
Arise, Adonai! O God, lift up Your hand. Do not forget the afflicted.
I will meditate on Your precepts, and regard Your ways.
O how I love Your Torah! It is my meditation all day.
Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have lifted up My hand against them”—it is a declaration of Adonai. “They will bear their iniquity.
“Now in that day” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “I will cut off your horses among you, and I will destroy your chariots.
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them!”
You are My friends if you do what I command you.