Many peoples shall go and say, "Come, let's go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Zion the law shall go forth, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don't grind it.
The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn't respect man.
Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn't the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward," says the LORD of Armies.
saying to those who are bound, 'Come out!'; to those who are in darkness, 'Show yourselves!' "They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.
I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says the LORD.
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
"If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, [and] the holy of the LORD honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking [your own] words:
O the LORD, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time; and shall we be saved?
He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, [as he who offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
The women also, sitting in the ways with cords around themselves, burn bran for perfume; but if any of them, drawn by someone who passes by, should lie with him, she reproaches her peer, because she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.
"How can you say, 'I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals'? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. [You are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have taught even the wicked women your ways.
"Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat for them by the ways, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.
Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,' says the LORD."
Thus says the LORD, "Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, 'Where is the good way?' and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'
Thus says the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
It shall happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As the LORD lives; even as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst of my people.
I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved [them] of children, I have destroyed my people; they didn't return from their ways.
For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
I, the LORD, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.
For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;
because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he has pronounced against you.
great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
Isn't your piety your confidence? Isn't the integrity of your ways your hope?
Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?
You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.
"These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.
Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"
On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps?
For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
"For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.
He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.
because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn't pay attention to any of his ways,
He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.
They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread."
Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."
I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me."
For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me."
Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.
Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul."
"In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.
The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
The children of Benjamin said, "They are struck down before us, as at the first." But the children of Israel said, "Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways."
They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck of them two thousand men.
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.
He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,
Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth.
Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.
"The lord said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
"He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
"Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.
See that you don't despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,
Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.'
Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.
For you always have the poor with you; but you don't always have me.
teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
Many 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 teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Zion will go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem;
The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.
I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,
always in every request of mine on behalf of you all making my requests with joy,
according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, Rejoice!
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
Don't envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.
Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.
A loving doe and a graceful deer-- let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD. He examines all his paths.
Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,
then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him,
"Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.
Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding."
To call to those who pass by, who go straight on their ways,
He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.
He who walks in his uprightness fears the LORD, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.
The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.
A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weighs the motives.
When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.
He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.
A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.
lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.
My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.
Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.
Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.
Don't give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn't eat the bread of idleness.
But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice, Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.
For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Show me your ways, the LORD. Teach me your paths.
I will bless the LORD at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.
I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."
Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be converted to you.
Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.
But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.
Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.
Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you. Selah.
For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."
He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel.
He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.
Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him.
He has given food to those who fear him. He always remembers his covenant.
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the LORD's law.
Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.
Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.
I declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes.
Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
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