Psalms 119

¹ALEPH O the blessedness of those perfect in the way, They are walking in the Law of YHWH,

²O the blessedness of those keeping His testimonies, They seek Him with the whole heart.

³Indeed, they have not done iniquity, They have walked in His ways.

⁴You have commanded us to diligently keep Your precepts,

⁵O that my ways were prepared to keep Your statutes,

⁶Then I am not ashamed In my looking to all Your commands.

⁷I confess You with uprightness of heart, In my learning the judgments of Your righteousness.

⁸I keep Your statutes, do not utterly leave me!

⁹BETH With what does a young man purify his path? To observe—according to Your word.

¹⁰I have sought You with all my heart, Do not let me err from Your commands.

¹¹I have hid Your saying in my heart, That I do not sin before You.

¹²Blessed are You, O YHWH, teach me Your statutes.

¹³With my lips I have recounted All the judgments of Your mouth.

¹⁴I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies, As over all wealth.

¹⁵I meditate on Your precepts, And I attentively behold Your paths.

¹⁶I delight myself in Your statutes, I do not forget Your word.

¹⁷GIMEL Confer benefits on Your servant, I live, and I keep Your word.

¹⁸Uncover my eyes, and I behold wonders out of Your law.

¹⁹I am a sojourner on earth, Do not hide Your commands from me.

²⁰My soul has broken for desire To Your judgments at all times.

²¹You have rebuked the cursed proud, Who are erring from Your commands.

²²Remove reproach and contempt from me, For I have kept Your testimonies.

²³Princes also sat—they spoke against me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes,

²⁴Your testimonies are also my delight, The men of my counsel!

²⁵DALETH My soul has cleaved to the dust, Quicken me according to Your word.

²⁶I have recounted my ways, And You answer me, teach me Your statutes,

²⁷Cause me to understand the way of Your precepts, And I meditate on Your wonders.

²⁸My soul has dropped from affliction, Establish me according to Your word.

²⁹Turn aside the way of falsehood from me And favor me with Your law.

³⁰I have chosen the way of faithfulness, I have compared Your judgments,

³¹I have adhered to Your testimonies, O YHWH, do not put me to shame.

³²I run the way of Your commands, For You enlarge my heart!

³³HE Show me, O YHWH, the way of Your statutes, And I keep it—to the end.

³⁴Cause me to understand, and I keep Your law, And observe it with the whole heart.

³⁵Cause me to tread in the path of Your commands, For I have delighted in it.

³⁶Incline my heart to Your testimonies, And not to dishonest gain.

³⁷Remove my eyes from seeing vanity, Quicken me in Your way.

³⁸Establish Your saying to Your servant, That is concerning Your fear.

³⁹Remove my reproach that I have feared, For Your judgments are good.

⁴⁰Behold, I have longed for Your precepts, Quicken me in Your righteousness,

⁴¹WAW And Your kindness meets me, O YHWH, Your salvation according to Your saying.

⁴²And I answer him who is reproaching me a word, For I have trusted in Your word.

⁴³And You do not utterly take away The word of truth from my mouth, Because I have hoped for Your judgment.

⁴⁴And I keep Your law continually, For all time and forever.

⁴⁵And I habitually walk in a broad place, For I have sought Your precepts.

⁴⁶And I speak of Your testimonies before kings, And I am not ashamed.

⁴⁷And I delight myself in Your commands, That I have loved,

⁴⁸And I lift up my hands to Your commands, That I have loved, And I meditate on Your statutes!

⁴⁹ZAYIN Remember the word to Your servant, On which You have caused me to hope.

⁵⁰This is my comfort in my affliction, That Your saying has quickened me.

⁵¹The proud have utterly scorned me, I have not turned aside from Your law.

⁵²I remembered Your judgments of old, O YHWH, And I comfort myself.

⁵³Horror has seized me, Because of the wicked forsaking Your law.

⁵⁴Your statutes have been songs to me, In the house of my sojournings.

⁵⁵I have remembered Your Name in the night, O YHWH, And I keep Your law.

⁵⁶This has been to me, That I have kept Your precepts!

⁵⁷HETH YHWH is my portion; I have said I would keep Your words,

⁵⁸I appeased Your face with the whole heart, Favor me according to Your saying.

⁵⁹I have reckoned my ways, And turn back my feet to Your testimonies.

⁶⁰I have made haste, And did not delay, to keep Your commands.

⁶¹Cords of the wicked have surrounded me, I have not forgotten Your law.

⁶²At midnight I rise to give thanks to You, For the judgments of Your righteousness.

⁶³I am a companion to all who fear You, And to those keeping Your precepts.

⁶⁴Of Your kindness, O YHWH, the earth is full, Teach me Your statutes!

⁶⁵TETH You did good with Your servant, O YHWH, According to Your word.

⁶⁶Teach me the goodness of reason and knowledge, For I have believed in Your commands.

⁶⁷Before I am afflicted, I am erring, And now I have kept Your saying.

⁶⁸You are good, and doing good, Teach me Your statutes.

⁶⁹The proud have forged falsehood against me, I keep Your precepts with the whole heart.

⁷⁰Their heart has been thick as fat, I have delighted in Your law.

⁷¹It is good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Your statutes.

⁷²The Law of Your mouth is better to me Than thousands of gold and silver!

⁷³YOD Your hands made me and establish me, Cause me to understand, and I learn Your commands.

⁷⁴Those fearing You see me and rejoice, Because I have hoped for Your word.

⁷⁵I have known, O YHWH, That Your judgments are righteous, And in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

⁷⁶Please let Your kindness be to comfort me, According to Your saying to Your servant.

⁷⁷Your mercies meet me, and I live, For Your law is my delight.

⁷⁸The proud are ashamed, For with falsehood they dealt perversely with me. I meditate on Your precepts.

⁷⁹Those fearing You turn back to me, And those knowing Your testimonies.

⁸⁰My heart is perfect in Your statutes, So that I am not ashamed.

⁸¹KAPH My soul has been consumed for Your salvation, I have hoped for Your word.

⁸²My eyes have been consumed for Your word, Saying, “When does it comfort me?”

⁸³For I have been as a bottle in smoke, I have not forgotten Your statutes.

⁸⁴How many are the days of Your servant? When do You execute judgment Against my pursuers?

⁸⁵The proud have dug pits for me, That are not according to Your law.

⁸⁶All Your commands are faithfulness, They have pursued me with falsehood, Help me.

⁸⁷They have almost consumed me on earth, And I have not forsaken Your precepts.

⁸⁸Quicken me according to Your kindness, And I keep the Testimony of Your mouth!

⁸⁹LAMED For all time, O YHWH, Your word is set up in the heavens.

⁹⁰Your faithfulness from generation to generation, You established earth, and it stands.

⁹¹According to Your ordinances They have stood this day, for the whole—Your servants.

⁹²Unless Your law were my delights, Then had I perished in my affliction.

⁹³I do not forget Your precepts for all time, For You have quickened me by them.

⁹⁴I am Yours, save me, for I have sought Your precepts.

⁹⁵Your wicked waited for me to destroy me, I understand Your testimonies.

⁹⁶I have seen an end of all perfection, Your command is exceedingly broad!

⁹⁷MEM O how I have loved Your law! It is my meditation all the day.

⁹⁸Your command makes me wiser than my enemies, For it is before me for all time.

⁹⁹I have acted wisely above all my teachers. For Your testimonies are my meditation.

¹⁰⁰Above elderly—I understand more, For I have kept Your precepts.

¹⁰¹I restrained my feet from every evil path, So that I keep Your word.

¹⁰²I did not turn aside from Your judgments, For You have directed me.

¹⁰³How sweet Your saying has been to my palate, Above honey to my mouth.

¹⁰⁴I have understanding from Your precepts, Therefore I have hated every false path!

¹⁰⁵NUN Your word is a lamp to my foot, And a light to my path.

¹⁰⁶I have sworn, and I confirm, To keep the judgments of Your righteousness.

¹⁰⁷I have been afflicted very much, O YHWH, quicken me, according to Your word.

¹⁰⁸Please accept the free-will offerings of my mouth, O YHWH, And teach me Your judgments.

¹⁰⁹My soul is in my hand continually, And I have not forgotten Your law.

¹¹⁰The wicked have laid a snare for me, And I did not wander from your precepts.

¹¹¹I have inherited Your testimonies for all time, For they are the joy of my heart.

¹¹²I have inclined my heart To do Your statutes, for all time—to the end!

¹¹³SAMEKH I have hated doubting ones, And I have loved Your law.

¹¹⁴You are my hiding place and my shield, I have hoped for Your word.

¹¹⁵Turn aside from me, you evildoers, And I keep the commands of my God.

¹¹⁶Sustain me according to Your saying, And I live, and You do not put me to shame because of my hope.

¹¹⁷Support me, and I am saved, And I look on Your statutes continually.

¹¹⁸You have trodden down All going astray from Your statutes, For their deceit is falsehood.

¹¹⁹Dross! You have caused to cease All the wicked of the earth; Therefore I have loved Your testimonies.

¹²⁰My flesh has trembled from Your fear, And I have been afraid from Your judgments!

¹²¹AYIN I have done judgment and righteousness, Do not leave me to my oppressors.

¹²²Make Your servant sure for good, Do not let the proud oppress me.

¹²³My eyes have been consumed for Your salvation. And for the saying of Your righteousness.

¹²⁴Do with Your servant according to Your kindness. And teach me Your statutes.

¹²⁵I am Your servant—cause me to understand, And I know Your testimonies.

¹²⁶Time for YHWH to work! They have made Your law void.

¹²⁷Therefore I have loved Your commands Above gold—even fine gold.

¹²⁸Therefore all my appointments I have declared wholly right, I have hated every path of falsehood!

¹²⁹PE Your testimonies are wonderful, Therefore my soul has kept them.

¹³⁰The opening of Your words enlightens, Instructing the simple.

¹³¹I have opened my mouth, indeed, I pant, For I have longed for Your commands.

¹³²Look to me, and favor me, As customary to those loving Your Name.

¹³³Establish my steps by Your saying, And any iniquity does not rule over me.

¹³⁴Ransom me from the oppression of man, And I observe Your precepts,

¹³⁵Cause Your face to shine on Your servant, And teach me Your statutes.

¹³⁶Streams of waters have come down my eyes, Because they have not kept Your law!

¹³⁷TSADE You are righteous, O YHWH, And Your judgments are upright.

¹³⁸You have appointed Your testimonies, Righteous and exceedingly faithful,

¹³⁹My zeal has cut me off, For my adversaries forgot Your words.

¹⁴⁰Your saying is tried exceedingly, And Your servant has loved it.

¹⁴¹I am small, and despised, I have not forgotten Your precepts.

¹⁴²Your righteousness is righteousness for all time, And Your law is truth.

¹⁴³Adversity and distress have found me, Your commands are my delights.

¹⁴⁴The righteousness of Your testimonies Is to cause me to understand, and I live!

¹⁴⁵QOF I have called with the whole heart, Answer me, O YHWH, I keep Your statutes,

¹⁴⁶I have called You, save me, And I keep Your testimonies.

¹⁴⁷I have gone forward in the dawn, and I cry, I have hoped for Your word.

¹⁴⁸My eyes have gone before the watches, To meditate on Your saying.

¹⁴⁹Hear my voice, according to Your kindness, YHWH, quicken me according to Your judgment.

¹⁵⁰My wicked pursuers have been near, They have been far off from Your law.

¹⁵¹You are near, O YHWH, And all Your commands are truth.

¹⁵²I have known Your testimonies of old, That You have founded them for all time!

¹⁵³RESH See my affliction, and deliver me, For I have not forgotten Your law.

¹⁵⁴Plead my plea, and redeem me, Quicken me according to Your saying.

¹⁵⁵Salvation is far from the wicked, For they have not sought Your statutes.

¹⁵⁶Your mercies are many, O YHWH, Quicken me according to Your judgments.

¹⁵⁷My pursuers and adversaries are many, I have not turned aside from Your testimonies.

¹⁵⁸I have seen treacherous ones, And grieve myself, Because they have not kept Your saying.

¹⁵⁹See, for I have loved Your precepts, YHWH, quicken me according to Your kindness.

¹⁶⁰The sum of Your word is truth, And every judgment of Your righteousness is for all time!

¹⁶¹SHIN Princes have pursued me without cause, And my heart was afraid because of Your words.

¹⁶²I rejoice concerning Your saying, As one finding abundant spoil.

¹⁶³I have hated falsehood, indeed I detest it, I have loved Your law.

¹⁶⁴Seven times in a day I have praised You, Because of the judgments of Your righteousness.

¹⁶⁵Those loving Your law have abundant peace, And they have no stumbling-block.

¹⁶⁶I have waited for Your salvation, O YHWH, And I have done Your commands.

¹⁶⁷My soul has kept Your testimonies, And I love them exceedingly.

¹⁶⁸I have kept Your precepts and Your testimonies, For all my ways are before You!

¹⁶⁹TAW My loud cry comes near before You, O YHWH; Cause me to understand according to Your word.

¹⁷⁰My supplication comes in before You, Deliver me according to Your saying.

¹⁷¹My lips utter praise, For You teach me Your statutes.

¹⁷²My tongue sings of Your saying, For all Your commands are righteous.

¹⁷³Your hand is for a help to me, For I have chosen Your commands.

¹⁷⁴I have longed for Your salvation, O YHWH, And Your law is my delight.

¹⁷⁵My soul lives, and it praises You, And Your judgments help me.

¹⁷⁶I wandered as a lost sheep, so seek Your servant, For I have not forgotten Your precepts!

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