Psalms 34:11-18

¹¹(34:12) Come, ye children, hearken unto me: the fear of the Lord will I teach you.

¹²(34:13) Who is the man that desireth life, loveth many days, that he may see happiness?

¹³(34:14) Guard thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking deceit.

¹⁴(34:15) Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

¹⁵(34:16) The eyes of the Lord are directed unto the righteous, and his ears unto their cry.

¹⁶(34:17) But the anger of the Lord is against those that do evil, to cut off from the earth their remembrance.

¹⁷(34:18) Those cry, and the Lord heareth, and from all their distresses he delivereth them.

¹⁸(34:19) The Lord is nigh unto those that are broken-hearted: and he saveth those that are of a contrite spirit.