Paths

You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.

Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.

He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’

…so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?

…the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.

He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.

Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.

You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty.

…to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.

…from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,

…whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.

None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.

So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.

…in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

All her ways are pleasant, and all her paths are peaceful.

I will guide you in the way of wisdom; I will lead you on straight paths.

For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice,

…calling out to those who pass by, who make their paths straight.

And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.

Whom did He consult to enlighten Him, and who taught Him the paths of justice? Who imparted knowledge to Him and showed Him the way of understanding?

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.

This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’

He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.

The prophet is Ephraim’s watchman, along with my God, yet the snare of the fowler lies on all his paths. Hostility is in the house of his God!

And many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”

“A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”

…as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.

You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’

Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.