חוֹק

Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.

Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.

KOPH. I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.

Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.

He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.

When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.

So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open:

And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.

Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.

But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.