Proverbs 1, sung word for word in more than 20 music styles, with the words on screen. Free. Choose a style and a voice to play it.
1 -These are the proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel,
2 -for gaining wisdom and discipline, for comprehending words of insight,
3 -and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity.
4 -To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,
5 -let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
6 -by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
7 -The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
8 -Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
9 -For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.
10 -My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.
11 -If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
12 -let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
13 -We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.
14 -Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”—
15 -my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.
16 -For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
17 -How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
18 -But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
19 -Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.
20 -Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;
21 -in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:
22 -“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
23 -If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
24 -Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
25 -because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,
26 -in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,
27 -when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
28 -Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
29 -For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
30 -They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.
31 -So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32 -For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
33 -But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”
(Berean Standard Bible)
