God looked at everything he had made. And God saw that everything was very good.
Deuteronomy 32:4 - Easy To Read Version “The Rock (the Lord)—his work is perfect!
Why? Because all his ways are right!
God is true and faithful.
He is good and honest. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: For all his ways are judgment: A God of truth and without iniquity, Just and right is he. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He is the Rock, His work is perfect, for all His ways are law and justice. A God of faithfulness without breach or deviation, just and right is He. American Standard Version (1901) The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he. Common English Bible The rock: his acts are perfection! No doubt about it: all his ways are right! He’s the faithful God, never deceiving; altogether righteous and true is he. Catholic Public Domain Version The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments. God is faithful and without any iniquity. He is just and upright. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity; he is just and right. |
God looked at everything he had made. And God saw that everything was very good.
Surely you would not destroy the city. You would not destroy 50 good people to kill the evil people. If that happened, then good people and evil people would be the same—they would both be punished. You are the judge of all the earth. I know you will do the right thing.”
The Lord is alive. I praise my Rock! [144] God is great! He is the Rock who saves me.
The God of Israel spoke. The Rock of Israel said to me, “The person who rules people fairly, the person who rules with respect for God,
Now each one of you must fear the Lord. Be careful in what you do because the Lord our God is fair. The Lord doesn’t treat some people more important than others. And he doesn’t accept money to change his judgments.”
You saw he was true and loyal to you.\par And you made an agreement with him.\par You promised to give him the land of\par the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites,\par the Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites.\par But you promised to give that land to Abraham’s descendants. {\cf2\super [50]} \par And you kept your promise!\par Why? Because you are good!\par
“You men can understand,\par so listen to me.\par God would never do what is evil!\par God All-Powerful would never do wrong!\par
So Job, God won’t listen to you\par when you say that you don’t see him.\par You say you are waiting for your chance\par to meet with God and prove\par that you are innocent.\par
No person can tell God what to do.\par No person can say to God,\par ‘God, you have done wrong.’\par
God is always fair.\par God All-Powerful never changes\par the things that are right.\par
The Lord is good!\par His love is forever.\par We can trust him forever and ever!\par \par \par
Lord, give me the things you promised.\par Lord, your true love continues forever.\par Lord, you made us,\par so don’t leave us!\par
Everything the Lord does is good.\par Everything he does shows how good he is.\par
The Lord made heaven and earth.\par The Lord made the sea\par and everything in it.\par The Lord will protect them forever.\par
The Lord is my Rock, {\cf2\super [97]} \par my Fortress, {\cf2\super [98]} \par my Place of Safety.”\par My God is my Rock.\par I run to him for protection.\par God is my shield.\par His power saves me. {\cf2\super [99]} \par The Lord is my hiding place\par high in the hills.\par
The Lord is alive!\par I praise my Rock, {\cf2\super [107]} \par God saves me.\par He is great!\par
The Lord’s teachings are perfect.\par They give strength to God’s people.\par The Lord’s Agreement {\cf2\super [110]} can be trusted.\par It helps foolish people become wise.\par
Lord, you are the God we can trust.\par I put my life {\cf2\super [189]} in your hands.\par Save me!\par
Those people would remember\par that God was their Rock, {\cf2\super [448]} \par They would remember\par that God Most-High saved them.\par
The Lord caught those bad people.\par So people learned that the Lord punishes people who do bad things.\par \i (HIGGAYON {\cf2\super [51]})\i0 \par \i (SELAH {\cf2\super [52]})\i0 \par
Let your servants see the wonderful things\par you can do for them.\par And let their children see your glory.\par
They are there to show everyone\par that the Lord is good. {\cf2\super [520]} \par He is my Rock, {\cf2\super [521]} \par and he does nothing wrong. {\cf2\super [522]} \par
Thick dark clouds surround the Lord.\par Goodness and justice make his kingdom strong.\par
The Lord showed the nations\par his power to save.\par The Lord showed them his goodness.\par
The Powerful King loves justice.\par God, you made goodness.\par You brought goodness and fairness\par to Jacob (Israel).\par
The Lord passed in front of Moses and said, “YAHWEH, [339] the Lord, is the kind and merciful God. The Lord is slow to become angry. The Lord is full of great love. The Lord can be trusted.
I learned that anything God does will continue forever. People can’t add anything to the work of God. And people can’t take anything away from the work of God. God did this so people would respect him.
This will happen because you have forgotten the God who saves you. You have not remembered that God is your place of safety.
Lord, you are my God.\par I honor you and praise your name.\par You have done amazing things.\par The words you said long ago\par are completely true.\par Everything has happened\par exactly as you said it would.\par
So, trust the Lord always.\par Why? Because in the Lord YAH, {\cf2\super [240]} you have a place of safety forever!\par
Because of those things, the Lord my Master says, “I will put a rock—a cornerstone—in the ground in Zion. {\cf2\super [259]} This will be a very precious stone. {\cf2\super [260]} Everything will be built on this very important rock. Any person that trusts \{in that rock\} will not be disappointed.
The Lord wants to show his mercy to you. The Lord is waiting. The Lord wants to rise and comfort you. The Lord God is fair, and every person that waits for the Lord’s help will be blessed (happy).
\{If this would happen\}, then the king {\cf2\super [294]} would be like a place to hide from the wind and rain. It would be like having streams of water in a dry land. It would be like a cool shadow from a large rock in a hot land.
But the Lord is the only true God.\par He is the only God who is truly alive.\par He is the King that rules forever.\par The earth shakes when God is angry.\par The people of the nations can’t stop his anger.\par
But if someone wants to brag,\par then let him brag about these things:\par Let him brag that he learned to know me.\par Let him brag that he understands\par that I am the Lord\par that I am kind and fair and\par that I do good things on earth.\par I love those things.”\par This message is from the Lord.\par
Then at the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up toward heaven. And I was in my right mind again. Then I gave praise to God Most High. I gave honor and glory to him who lives forever.
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give praise, honor, and glory to the King of Heaven. Everything he does is right. He is always fair. And he is able to make proud people humble!
Your eyes are too good to look at evil.\par You can’t watch people doing wrong.\par So how can you watch\par those evil people win?\par How can you watch bad people\par defeating good people?\par
But God is still in that city. And he continues to be good. God does not do anything wrong. He continues to help his people. Morning after morning he helps his people make good decisions. But those bad people are not ashamed of the bad things they do.
So you must be perfect, the same as your Father in heaven is perfect.
The Word {\cf2\super [5]} became a man and lived among us. We saw his glory—the glory that belongs to the only Son of the Father. The Word was full of grace (kindness) and truth.
The law was given through Moses. But grace and \{the way of\} truth came through Jesus Christ.
Jesus answered, “I am the way. I am the truth and the life. The only way to the Father is through me.
Also, the Father judges no one. But the Father has given the Son power to do all the judging.
Those people know God’s law. They know God’s law says that people who live like that should die. But they continue to do those wrong things. And they say that people who do those things are doing right.
God judges the people that do those wrong things. And we know that God’s judgment is right.
But you people are hard and stubborn. You refuse to change. So you are making your own punishment greater and greater. You will get that punishment on the day when God will show his anger. On that day people will see God’s right judgments.
When we do wrong, that shows more clearly that God is right. So can we say that God does wrong when he punishes us? (I am using an idea that some people might have.)
And they all drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from that spiritual rock that was with them. That rock was Christ.
He helps children that have no parents. He helps widows. [63] He loves even the strangers in our country. He gives them food and clothes.
“But Jeshurun [212] became fat and kicked {like a bull}. (Yes, you people were fed well! You became full and fat!) Then he left the God who made him! He ran away from the Rock who saved him.
You left the Rock (God) who made you; you forgot the God who gave you life.
“So remember that the Lord your God is the only God, and you can trust him! He keeps his Agreement. He shows his love and kindness to all people who love him and obey his commands. He continues to show his love and kindness through a thousand generations.
Everything good comes from God. And every perfect gift is from God. These good gifts come down from the Father who made all the lights in the sky (sun, moon, stars). But God never changes \{like those lights\}. He is always the same.
God is the only One who makes laws. He is the only Judge. God is the only One who can save and destroy. So it is not right for you to judge another person.
There is no Holy God like the Lord. There is no God but you! There is no Rock [20] like our God.