Lexicon :: Strong's H2706 - ḥōq

Salvation is far from the wicked

because they do not study your statutes.

He declares his word to Jacob,

his statutes and judgments to Israel.

He set them in position forever and ever;

he gave an order that will never pass away.

“when he set a limit for the sea

so that the waters would not violate his command,

when he laid out the foundations of the earth.

Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me.

Give me neither poverty nor wealth;

feed me with the food I need.

She rises while it is still night

and provides food for her household

and portions[fn] for her female servants.

Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat

and opens wide its enormous jaws,

and down go Zion’s dignitaries, her masses,

her crowds, and those who celebrate in her!

The earth is polluted by its inhabitants,

for they have transgressed teachings,

overstepped decrees,

and broken the permanent covenant.

“Do you not fear me?

This is the LORD’s declaration.

Do you not tremble before me,

the one who set the sand as the boundary of the sea,

an enduring barrier that it cannot cross?

The waves surge, but they cannot prevail.

They roar but cannot pass over it.

“If this fixed order departs from before me —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

only then will Israel’s descendants cease

to be a nation before me forever.

“I took the purchase agreement ​— ​the sealed copy with its terms and conditions and the open copy ​— ​

“so you will know that I am the LORD, whose statutes you have not followed and whose ordinances you have not practiced. Instead, you have acted according to the ordinances of the nations around you.’ ”

“ ‘Therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and reduced your provisions. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the Philistine women, who were embarrassed by your indecent conduct.

“ ‘Then I said to their children in the wilderness, “Don’t follow the statutes of your fathers, defile yourselves with their idols, or keep their ordinances.

“I will place my Spirit within you and cause you to follow my statutes and carefully observe my ordinances.

“The quota of oil in liquid measures[fn] will be one percent of every[fn] cor. The cor equals ten liquid measures or one standard larger capacity measure,[fn] since ten liquid measures equal one standard larger capacity measure.

The LORD says:

I will not relent from punishing Judah

for three crimes, even four,

because they have rejected the instruction of the LORD

and have not kept his statutes.

The lies that their ancestors followed

have led them astray.

A day will come for rebuilding your walls;

on that day your boundary will be extended.

before the decree takes effect

and the day passes like chaff,

before the burning of the LORD’s anger overtakes you,

before the day of the LORD’s anger overtakes you.

“But didn’t my words and my statutes that I commanded my servants the prophets overtake your ancestors? ’ ”

So the people repented and said, “As the LORD of Armies decided to deal with us for our ways and our deeds, so he has dealt with us.”

“Since the days of your ancestors, you have turned from my statutes; you have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Armies.

Yet you ask, “How can we return? ”

“Remember the instruction of Moses my servant, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.