In thy walking thy step is not straitened, And if thou runnest, thou stumblest not.
Thou enlargest my step under me, And mine ankles have not slidden.
Abundant peace have those loving Thy law, And they have no stumbling-block.
And I walk habitually in a broad place, For Thy precepts I have sought.
Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness--every good path.
Then thou goest thy way confidently, And thy foot doth not stumble.
The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked--it talketh with thee.
With weeping they come in, And with supplications I bring them, I cause them to go unto streams of waters, In a right way--they stumble not in it, For I have been to Israel for a father, And Ephraim--My first-born is he.
and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence--who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, --to which also they were set;