Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?

Today they stand firm by your decrees, for all things are your servants.

Do not completely deprive me of a truthful testimony, ¹  for I await your justice.

¹ “These are the decisions that you will set before them:

With my lips I proclaim all the regulations you have revealed. ¹ 

I desperately long to know ¹  your regulations at all times.

I choose the path of faithfulness; I am committed to ¹  your regulations.

Take away the insults that I dread! ¹  Indeed, ²  your regulations are good.

I remember your ancient regulations, ¹  O Lord, and console myself. ² 

In the middle of the night I arise ¹  to thank you for your just regulations.

I do not turn aside from your regulations, for you teach me.

I have vowed and solemnly sworn to keep your just regulations.

O Lord, please accept the freewill offerings of my praise! ¹  Teach me your regulations!

He proclaims his word to Jacob, his statutes and regulations to Israel.

Now the first covenant, ¹  in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.

Then she defied my regulations and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations ¹  and the countries around her. ²  Indeed, they ³  have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes.

Then you will know that I am the Lord, whose statutes you have not followed and whose regulations you have not carried out. Instead you have behaved according to the regulations of the nations around you!’”

You must carefully obey at all times the rules, regulations, law, and commandments he wrote down for you. You must not worship other gods.

when he nullified ¹  in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man ²  out of two, ³  thus making peace,

You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations. ¹  I am the Lord.’”