11 Come here, my children! Gather round
and learn to fear the LORD.
12 Does anyone delight in life
and long to see good days?
13 Then keep your tongue from evil speech,
14 and practice what is right.
Desire to know the way of peace;
pursue it with your might.
15 The LORD’s eyes are upon the just;
he listens to their plea.
16 The wicked he rejects, and blots
from earth their memory.
17 The righteous cry; the LORD responds
and frees them when distressed.
18 The LORD draws near the broken heart
and rescues the depressed.
19 From all the troubles of the just
the LORD will set him free.
20 The LORD protects his every bone;
and broken none will be.
21 The wicked are condemned to death,
all those who hate the just.
22 God saves his own; they’re not condemned,
for in the LORD they trust.
– Sing Psalms, alt.
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