This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.
For this is what the Lord of armies has said: Let trees be cut down and an earthwork be placed against Jerusalem: sorrow on the false town! inside her there is nothing but cruel ways.
The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, says, Let your ways and your doings be changed for the better and I will let you go on living in this place.
For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;
And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;
Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.
Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.
Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?
Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.
He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.
See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.
He makes deep ways, cut through the rock, and his eye sees everything of value.
The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:
Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?
If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;
He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.
For he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways.
For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.
Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,
He is the chief of the ways of God, made by him for his pleasure.
Only take great care to do the orders and the law which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave you; to have love for the Lord your God and to go in all his ways; and to keep his laws and to be true to him and to be his servants with all your heart and with all your soul.
But whenever the judge was dead, they went back and did more evil than their fathers, going after other gods, to be their servants and their worshippers; giving up nothing of their sins and their hard-hearted ways.
Then Gideon sent through all the hill-country of Ephraim saying, Come down against Midian, and keep the ways across Jordan before they come. So all the men of Ephraim, massing themselves together, kept the ways across Jordan.
The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.
In her skirts were her unclean ways; she gave no thought to her end; and her fall has been a wonder; she has no comforter: see her sorrow, O Lord; for the attacker is lifted up.
By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.
Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;
He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:
Do not go after those who make use of spirits, or wonder-workers; do not go in their ways or become unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.
And you, child, will be named the prophet of the Most High: you will go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways;
Every valley will be lifted up, and all the mountains and hills made low, and the twisted will be made straight, and the rough ways smooth;
And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.
And all her pictured images will be hammered into bits, and all the payments for her loose ways will be burned with fire, and all the images of her gods I will make waste: for with the price of a loose woman she got them together, and as the price of a loose woman will they be given back.
And a number of nations will go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will give us knowledge of his ways and we will be guided by his word: for from Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
The war-carriages are rushing through the streets, pushing against one another in the wide ways, looking like burning lights, running like thunder-flames.
Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.
And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.
For they are a danger to you with their false ways, causing sin to come on you in the question of Peor, and because of Cozbi, their sister, the daughter of the chief of Midian, who was put to death at the time of the disease which came on you because of Peor.
He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.
The uncontrolled are hated by the Lord, but those whose ways are without error are his delight
The righteousness of the upright will be their guide, but the twisted ways of the false will be their destruction.
My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:
To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:
There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.
He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.
He who goes on his way in righteousness has before him the fear of the Lord; but he whose ways are twisted gives him no honour.
All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.
There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.
When a man's ways are pleasing to the Lord, he makes even his haters be at peace with him.
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