Your arrival was only yesterday—should I make you wander around with us today, to go wherever I may go? Go back and take your kinsmen back with you. Kindness and truth be with you!”
Proverbs 3:3 - Tree of Life Version Let kindness and truth never leave you— bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the table of thine heart: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Let not mercy and kindness [shutting out all hatred and selfishness] and truth [shutting out all deliberate hypocrisy or falsehood] forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them upon the tablet of your heart. [Col. 3:9-12.] American Standard Version (1901) Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart: Common English Bible Don’t let loyalty and faithfulness leave you. Bind them on your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. Catholic Public Domain Version Let not mercy and truth abandon you: encircle them around your throat, and inscribe them on the tablets of your heart. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Let not mercy and truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart: |
Your arrival was only yesterday—should I make you wander around with us today, to go wherever I may go? Go back and take your kinsmen back with you. Kindness and truth be with you!”
I have treasured Your word in my heart, so I might not sin against You.
All Adonai’s ways are lovingkindness and truth to those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.
Surely His salvation is near those who fear Him, so that glory may dwell in our land.
So it will be like a sign on your hand and a reminder between your eyes, so that the Torah of Adonai may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand Adonai has brought you out of Egypt.
Then Adonai passed before him, and proclaimed, “Adonai, Adonai, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth,
For they are a garland of grace for your head and a chain to adorn your neck.
Indeed those who plot evil go astray but grace and truth come to those who plan good.
By mercy and truth is iniquity atoned, and by the fear of Adonai one avoids evil.
Lovingkindness and truth preserve the king, but his throne is upheld by lovingkindness.
Judah’s sin is written with an iron pen and with a point of a diamond, engraved on the tablet of their heart and on the horns of your altars.
Hear the word of Adonai, Bnei-Yisrael! For Adonai has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, no covenant loyalty, and no knowledge of God in the land.
Instruction of truth was in his mouth. Injustice was not found on his lips. In shalom and uprightness he walked with Me, and he turned many from iniquity.
“Woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! You tithe mint and dill and cumin, yet you have neglected the weightier matters of Torah—justice and mercy and faithfulness. It is necessary to do these things without neglecting the others.
It is clear that you are a letter from Messiah delivered by us—written not with ink but with the Ruach of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
(for the fruit of light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
Bind them as a sign on your hand, they are to be as frontlets between your eyes,
“This is the covenant that I will cut with them: ‘After those days,’ says Adonai, ‘I will put My Torah upon their hearts, and upon their minds I will write it,’” then He says,