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The Book of Psalms

Chapter 1
1:1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; Voice Reading
1:2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; Voice Reading
1:3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; Voice Reading
1:4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. Voice Reading
1:5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: Voice Reading
1:6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. Voice Reading
1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Voice Reading
1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Voice Reading
1:9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. Voice Reading
1:10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Voice Reading
1:11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: Voice Reading
1:12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: Voice Reading
1:13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: Voice Reading
1:14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: Voice Reading
1:15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: Voice Reading
1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. Voice Reading
1:17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. Voice Reading
1:18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. Voice Reading
1:19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. Voice Reading
1:20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: Voice Reading
1:21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, Voice Reading
1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Voice Reading
1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. Voice Reading
1:24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; Voice Reading

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