Praise the Lord! Happy are those who fear the Lord, who greatly delight in his commandments.
Proverbs 21:15 - New Revised Standard Version When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous, but dismay to evildoers. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 It is joy to the just to do judgment: But destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous (the upright, in right standing with God), but to the evildoers it is dismay, calamity, and ruin. American Standard Version (1901) It is joy to the righteous to do justice; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity. Common English Bible Acting justly is a joy to the righteous, but dreaded by those who do evil. Catholic Public Domain Version It is gladness for the just to do judgment; and it is dread for those who work iniquity. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version It is joy to the just to do judgment: and dread to them that work iniquity. |
Praise the Lord! Happy are those who fear the Lord, who greatly delight in his commandments.
If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my misery.
The way of the Lord is a stronghold for the upright, but destruction for evildoers.
The Righteous One observes the house of the wicked; he casts the wicked down to ruin.
Whoever wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.
Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;
You meet those who gladly do right, those who remember you in your ways. But you were angry, and we sinned; because you hid yourself we transgressed.
Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; go away from me, you evildoers.’
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.