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To observe—according to Your word. <A name="11"></a><a href="/psalms/119-10.htm">10</a>I have sought You with all my heart, "" Do not let me err from Your commands. <A name="12"></a><a href="/psalms/119-11.htm">11</a>I have hid Your saying in my heart, "" That I do not sin before You. <A name="13"></a><a href="/psalms/119-12.htm">12</a>Blessed [are] You, O YHWH, teach me Your statutes. <A name="14"></a><a href="/psalms/119-13.htm">13</a>With my lips I have recounted "" All the judgments of Your mouth. <A name="15"></a><a href="/psalms/119-14.htm">14</a>I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies, "" As over all wealth. <A name="16"></a><a href="/psalms/119-15.htm">15</a>I meditate on Your precepts, "" And I attentively behold Your paths. <A name="17"></a><a href="/psalms/119-16.htm">16</a>I delight myself in Your statutes, "" I do not forget Your word. <A name="18"></a><a href="/psalms/119-17.htm">17</a>[GIMEL] Confer benefits on Your servant, "" I live, and I keep Your word. <A name="19"></a><a href="/psalms/119-18.htm">18</a>Uncover my eyes, and I behold wonders out of Your law. <A name="20"></a><a href="/psalms/119-19.htm">19</a>I [am] a sojourner on earth, "" Do not hide Your commands from me. <A name="21"></a><a href="/psalms/119-20.htm">20</a>My soul has broken for desire "" To Your judgments at all times. <A name="22"></a><a href="/psalms/119-21.htm">21</a>You have rebuked the cursed proud, "" Who are erring from Your commands. <A name="23"></a><a href="/psalms/119-22.htm">22</a>Remove reproach and contempt from me, "" For I have kept Your testimonies. <A name="24"></a><a href="/psalms/119-23.htm">23</a>Princes also sat—they spoke against me, "" Your servant meditates on Your statutes, <A name="25"></a><a href="/psalms/119-24.htm">24</a>Your testimonies [are] also my delight, "" The men of my counsel! <A name="26"></a><a href="/psalms/119-25.htm">25</a>[DALETH] My soul has cleaved to the dust, "" Quicken me according to Your word. <A name="27"></a><a href="/psalms/119-26.htm">26</a>I have recounted my ways, "" And You answer me, teach me Your statutes, <A name="28"></a><a href="/psalms/119-27.htm">27</a>Cause me to understand the way of Your precepts, "" And I meditate on Your wonders. <A name="29"></a><a href="/psalms/119-28.htm">28</a>My soul has dropped from affliction, "" Establish me according to Your word. <A name="30"></a><a href="/psalms/119-29.htm">29</a>Turn aside the way of falsehood from me "" And favor me with Your law. <A name="31"></a><a href="/psalms/119-30.htm">30</a>I have chosen the way of faithfulness, "" I have compared Your judgments, <A name="32"></a><a href="/psalms/119-31.htm">31</a>I have adhered to Your testimonies, "" O YHWH, do not put me to shame. <A name="33"></a><a href="/psalms/119-32.htm">32</a>I run the way of Your commands, "" For You enlarge my heart! <A name="34"></a><a href="/psalms/119-33.htm">33</a>[HE] Show me, O YHWH, the way of Your statutes, "" And I keep it—[to] the end. <A name="35"></a><a href="/psalms/119-34.htm">34</a>Cause me to understand, and I keep Your law, "" And observe it with the whole heart. <A name="36"></a><a href="/psalms/119-35.htm">35</a>Cause me to tread in the path of Your commands, "" For I have delighted in it. <A name="37"></a><a href="/psalms/119-36.htm">36</a>Incline my heart to Your testimonies, "" And not to dishonest gain. <A name="38"></a><a href="/psalms/119-37.htm">37</a>Remove my eyes from seeing vanity, "" Quicken me in Your way. <A name="39"></a><a href="/psalms/119-38.htm">38</a>Establish Your saying to Your servant, "" That [is] concerning Your fear. <A name="40"></a><a href="/psalms/119-39.htm">39</a>Remove my reproach that I have feared, "" For Your judgments [are] good. <A name="41"></a><a href="/psalms/119-40.htm">40</a>Behold, I have longed for Your precepts, "" Quicken me in Your righteousness, <A name="42"></a><a href="/psalms/119-41.htm">41</a>[WAW] And Your kindness meets me, O YHWH, "" Your salvation according to Your saying. <A name="43"></a><a href="/psalms/119-42.htm">42</a>And I answer him who is reproaching me a word, "" For I have trusted in Your word. <A name="44"></a><a href="/psalms/119-43.htm">43</a>And You do not utterly take away "" The word of truth from my mouth, "" Because I have hoped for Your judgment. <A name="45"></a><a href="/psalms/119-44.htm">44</a>And I keep Your law continually, "" For all time and forever. <A name="46"></a><a href="/psalms/119-45.htm">45</a>And I habitually walk in a broad place, "" For I have sought Your precepts. <A name="47"></a><a href="/psalms/119-46.htm">46</a>And I speak of Your testimonies before kings, "" And I am not ashamed. <A name="48"></a><a href="/psalms/119-47.htm">47</a>And I delight myself in Your commands, "" That I have loved, <A name="49"></a><a href="/psalms/119-48.htm">48</a>And I lift up my hands to Your commands, "" That I have loved, "" And I meditate on Your statutes! <A name="50"></a><a href="/psalms/119-49.htm">49</a>[ZAYIN] Remember the word to Your servant, "" On which You have caused me to hope. <A name="51"></a><a href="/psalms/119-50.htm">50</a>This [is] my comfort in my affliction, "" That Your saying has quickened me. <A name="52"></a><a href="/psalms/119-51.htm">51</a>The proud have utterly scorned me, "" I have not turned aside from Your law. <A name="53"></a><a href="/psalms/119-52.htm">52</a>I remembered Your judgments of old, O YHWH, "" And I comfort myself. <A name="54"></a><a href="/psalms/119-53.htm">53</a>Horror has seized me, "" Because of the wicked forsaking Your law. <A name="55"></a><a href="/psalms/119-54.htm">54</a>Your statutes have been songs to me, "" In the house of my sojournings. <A name="56"></a><a href="/psalms/119-55.htm">55</a>I have remembered Your Name in the night, O YHWH, "" And I keep Your law. <A name="57"></a><a href="/psalms/119-56.htm">56</a>This has been to me, "" That I have kept Your precepts! <A name="58"></a><a href="/psalms/119-57.htm">57</a>[HETH] YHWH [is] my portion; I have said I would keep Your words, <A name="59"></a><a href="/psalms/119-58.htm">58</a>I appeased Your face with the whole heart, "" Favor me according to Your saying. <A name="60"></a><a href="/psalms/119-59.htm">59</a>I have reckoned my ways, "" And turn back my feet to Your testimonies. <A name="61"></a><a href="/psalms/119-60.htm">60</a>I have made haste, "" And did not delay, to keep Your commands. <A name="62"></a><a href="/psalms/119-61.htm">61</a>Cords of the wicked have surrounded me, "" I have not forgotten Your law. <A name="63"></a><a href="/psalms/119-62.htm">62</a>At midnight I rise to give thanks to You, "" For the judgments of Your righteousness. <A name="64"></a><a href="/psalms/119-63.htm">63</a>I [am] a companion to all who fear You, "" And to those keeping Your precepts. <A name="65"></a><a href="/psalms/119-64.htm">64</a>Of Your kindness, O YHWH, the earth is full, "" Teach me Your statutes! <A name="66"></a><a href="/psalms/119-65.htm">65</a>[TETH] You did good with Your servant, O YHWH, "" According to Your word. <A name="67"></a><a href="/psalms/119-66.htm">66</a>Teach me the goodness of reason and knowledge, "" For I have believed in Your commands. <A name="68"></a><a href="/psalms/119-67.htm">67</a>Before I am afflicted, I am erring, "" And now I have kept Your saying. <A name="69"></a><a href="/psalms/119-68.htm">68</a>You [are] good, and doing good, "" Teach me Your statutes. <A name="70"></a><a href="/psalms/119-69.htm">69</a>The proud have forged falsehood against me, "" I keep Your precepts with the whole heart. <A name="71"></a><a href="/psalms/119-70.htm">70</a>Their heart has been thick as fat, "" I have delighted in Your law. <A name="72"></a><a href="/psalms/119-71.htm">71</a>[It is] good for me that I have been afflicted, "" That I might learn Your statutes. <A name="73"></a><a href="/psalms/119-72.htm">72</a>The Law of Your mouth [is] better to me "" Than thousands of gold and silver! <A name="74"></a><a href="/psalms/119-73.htm">73</a>[YOD] Your hands made me and establish me, "" Cause me to understand, and I learn Your commands. <A name="75"></a><a href="/psalms/119-74.htm">74</a>Those fearing You see me and rejoice, "" Because I have hoped for Your word. <A name="76"></a><a href="/psalms/119-75.htm">75</a>I have known, O YHWH, "" That Your judgments [are] righteous, "" And [in] faithfulness You have afflicted me. <A name="77"></a><a href="/psalms/119-76.htm">76</a>Please let Your kindness be to comfort me, "" According to Your saying to Your servant. <A name="78"></a><a href="/psalms/119-77.htm">77</a>Your mercies meet me, and I live, "" For Your law [is] my delight. <A name="79"></a><a href="/psalms/119-78.htm">78</a>The proud are ashamed, "" For [with] falsehood they dealt perversely with me. I meditate on Your precepts. <A name="80"></a><a href="/psalms/119-79.htm">79</a>Those fearing You turn back to me, "" And those knowing Your testimonies. <A name="81"></a><a href="/psalms/119-80.htm">80</a>My heart is perfect in Your statutes, "" So that I am not ashamed. <A name="82"></a><a href="/psalms/119-81.htm">81</a>[KAPH] My soul has been consumed for Your salvation, "" I have hoped for Your word. <A name="83"></a><a href="/psalms/119-82.htm">82</a>My eyes have been consumed for Your word, "" Saying, “When does it comfort me?” <A name="84"></a><a href="/psalms/119-83.htm">83</a>For I have been as a bottle in smoke, "" I have not forgotten Your statutes. <A name="85"></a><a href="/psalms/119-84.htm">84</a>How many [are] the days of Your servant? When do You execute judgment "" Against my pursuers? <A name="86"></a><a href="/psalms/119-85.htm">85</a>The proud have dug pits for me, "" That [are] not according to Your law. <A name="87"></a><a href="/psalms/119-86.htm">86</a>All Your commands [are] faithfulness, "" They have pursued me [with] falsehood, "" Help me. <A name="88"></a><a href="/psalms/119-87.htm">87</a>They have almost consumed me on earth, "" And I have not forsaken Your precepts. <A name="89"></a><a href="/psalms/119-88.htm">88</a>Quicken me according to Your kindness, "" And I keep the Testimony of Your mouth! <A name="90"></a><a href="/psalms/119-89.htm">89</a>[LAMED] For all time, O YHWH, Your word is set up in the heavens. <A name="91"></a><a href="/psalms/119-90.htm">90</a>Your faithfulness from generation to generation, "" You established earth, and it stands. <A name="92"></a><a href="/psalms/119-91.htm"></a>According to Your ordinances "" They have stood this day, for the whole—Your servants. <A name="93"></a><a href="/psalms/119-92.htm">92</a>Unless Your law [were] my delights, "" Then had I perished in my affliction. <A name="94"></a><a href="/psalms/119-93.htm">93</a>I do not forget Your precepts for all time, "" For You have quickened me by them. <A name="95"></a><a href="/psalms/119-94.htm">94</a>I [am] Yours, save me, for I have sought Your precepts. <A name="96"></a><a href="/psalms/119-95.htm">95</a>Your wicked waited for me to destroy me, "" I understand Your testimonies. <A name="97"></a><a href="/psalms/119-96.htm">96</a>I have seen an end of all perfection, "" Your command [is] exceedingly broad! <A name="98"></a><a href="/psalms/119-97.htm">97</a>[MEM] O how I have loved Your law! It [is] my meditation all the day. <A name="99"></a><a href="/psalms/119-98.htm">98</a>Your command makes me wiser than my enemies, "" For it [is] before me for all time. <A name="100"></a><a href="/psalms/119-99.htm">99</a>I have acted wisely above all my teachers. For Your testimonies [are] my meditation. <A name="101"></a><a href="/psalms/119-100.htm">100</a>Above elderly—I understand more, "" For I have kept Your precepts. <A name="102"></a><a href="/psalms/119-101.htm">101</a>I restrained my feet from every evil path, "" So that I keep Your word. <A name="103"></a><a href="/psalms/119-102.htm">102</a>I did not turn aside from Your judgments, "" For You have directed me. <A name="104"></a><a href="/psalms/119-103.htm">103</a>How sweet Your saying has been to my palate, "" Above honey to my mouth. <A name="105"></a><a href="/psalms/119-104.htm">104</a>I have understanding from Your precepts, "" Therefore I have hated every false path! <A name="106"></a><a href="/psalms/119-105.htm">105</a>[NUN] Your word [is] a lamp to my foot, "" And a light to my path. <A name="107"></a><a href="/psalms/119-106.htm">106</a>I have sworn, and I confirm, "" To keep the judgments of Your righteousness. <A name="108"></a><a href="/psalms/119-107.htm">107</a>I have been afflicted very much, "" O YHWH, quicken me, according to Your word. <A name="109"></a><a href="/psalms/119-108.htm">108</a>Please accept [the] free-will offerings of my mouth, O YHWH, "" And teach me Your judgments. <A name="110"></a><a href="/psalms/119-109.htm">109</a>My soul [is] in my hand continually, "" And I have not forgotten Your law. <A name="111"></a><a href="/psalms/119-110.htm">110</a>The wicked have laid a snare for me, "" And I did not wander from your precepts. <A name="112"></a><a href="/psalms/119-111.htm">111</a>I have inherited Your testimonies for all time, "" For they [are] the joy of my heart. <A name="113"></a><a href="/psalms/119-112.htm">112</a>I have inclined my heart "" To do Your statutes, for all time—[to] the end! <A name="114"></a><a href="/psalms/119-113.htm">113</a>[SAMEKH] I have hated doubting ones, "" And I have loved Your law. <A name="115"></a><a href="/psalms/119-114.htm">114</a>You [are] my hiding place and my shield, "" I have hoped for Your word. <A name="116"></a><a href="/psalms/119-115.htm">115</a>Turn aside from me, you evildoers, "" And I keep the commands of my God. <A name="117"></a><a href="/psalms/119-116.htm">116</a>Sustain me according to Your saying, "" And I live, and You do not put me to shame because of my hope. <A name="118"></a><a href="/psalms/119-117.htm">117</a>Support me, and I am saved, "" And I look on Your statutes continually. <A name="119"></a><a href="/psalms/119-118.htm">118</a>You have trodden down "" All going astray from Your statutes, "" For their deceit [is] falsehood. <A name="120"></a><a href="/psalms/119-119.htm">119</a>Dross! You have caused to cease "" All the wicked of the earth; Therefore I have loved Your testimonies. <A name="121"></a><a href="/psalms/119-120.htm">120</a>My flesh has trembled from Your fear, "" And I have been afraid from Your judgments! <A name="122"></a><a href="/psalms/119-121.htm">121</a>[AYIN] I have done judgment and righteousness, "" Do not leave me to my oppressors. <A name="123"></a><a href="/psalms/119-122.htm">122</a>Make Your servant sure for good, "" Do not let the proud oppress me. <A name="124"></a><a href="/psalms/119-123.htm">123</a>My eyes have been consumed for Your salvation. And for the saying of Your righteousness. <A name="125"></a><a href="/psalms/119-124.htm">124</a>Do with Your servant according to Your kindness. And teach me Your statutes. <A name="126"></a><a href="/psalms/119-125.htm">125</a>I [am] Your servant—cause me to understand, "" And I know Your testimonies. <A name="127"></a><a href="/psalms/119-126.htm">126</a>Time for YHWH to work! They have made Your law void. <A name="128"></a><a href="/psalms/119-127.htm">127</a>Therefore I have loved Your commands "" Above gold—even fine gold. <A name="129"></a><a href="/psalms/119-128.htm">128</a>Therefore all my appointments I have declared wholly right, "" I have hated every path of falsehood! <A name="130"></a><a href="/psalms/119-129.htm">129</a>[PE] Your testimonies [are] wonderful, "" Therefore my soul has kept them. <A name="131"></a><a href="/psalms/119-130.htm">130</a>The opening of Your words enlightens, "" Instructing the simple. <A name="132"></a><a href="/psalms/119-131.htm">131</a>I have opened my mouth, indeed, I pant, "" For I have longed for Your commands. <A name="133"></a><a href="/psalms/119-132.htm">132</a>Look to me, and favor me, "" As customary to those loving Your Name. <A name="134"></a><a href="/psalms/119-133.htm">133</a>Establish my steps by Your saying, "" And any iniquity does not rule over me. <A name="135"></a><a href="/psalms/119-134.htm">134</a>Ransom me from the oppression of man, "" And I observe Your precepts, <A name="136"></a><a href="/psalms/119-135.htm">135</a>Cause Your face to shine on Your servant, "" And teach me Your statutes. <A name="137"></a><a href="/psalms/119-136.htm">136</a>Streams of waters have come down my eyes, "" Because they have not kept Your law! <A name="138"></a><a href="/psalms/119-137.htm">137</a>[TSADE] You [are] righteous, O YHWH, "" And Your judgments [are] upright. <A name="139"></a><a href="/psalms/119-138.htm">138</a>You have appointed Your testimonies, "" Righteous and exceedingly faithful, <A name="140"></a><a href="/psalms/119-139.htm">139</a>My zeal has cut me off, "" For my adversaries forgot Your words. <A name="141"></a><a href="/psalms/119-140.htm">140</a>Your saying [is] tried exceedingly, "" And Your servant has loved it. <A name="142"></a><a href="/psalms/119-141.htm">141</a>I [am] small, and despised, "" I have not forgotten Your precepts. <A name="143"></a><a href="/psalms/119-142.htm">142</a>Your righteousness [is] righteousness for all time, "" And Your law [is] truth. <A name="144"></a><a href="/psalms/119-143.htm">143</a>Adversity and distress have found me, "" Your commands [are] my delights. <A name="145"></a><a href="/psalms/119-144.htm">144</a>The righteousness of Your testimonies "" [Is] to cause me to understand, and I live! <A name="146"></a><a href="/psalms/119-145.htm">145</a>[QOF] I have called with the whole heart, "" Answer me, O YHWH, I keep Your statutes, <A name="147"></a><a href="/psalms/119-146.htm">146</a>I have called You, save me, "" And I keep Your testimonies. <A name="148"></a><a href="/psalms/119-147.htm">147</a>I have gone forward in the dawn, and I cry, "" I have hoped for Your word. <A name="149"></a><a href="/psalms/119-148.htm">148</a>My eyes have gone before the watches, "" To meditate on Your saying. <A name="150"></a><a href="/psalms/119-149.htm">149</a>Hear my voice, according to Your kindness, "" YHWH, quicken me according to Your judgment. <A name="151"></a><a href="/psalms/119-150.htm">150</a>My wicked pursuers have been near, "" They have been far off from Your law. <A name="152"></a><a href="/psalms/119-151.htm">151</a>You [are] near, O YHWH, "" And all Your commands [are] truth. <A name="153"></a><a href="/psalms/119-152.htm">152</a>I have known Your testimonies of old, "" That You have founded them for all time! <A name="154"></a><a href="/psalms/119-153.htm">153</a>[RESH] See my affliction, and deliver me, "" For I have not forgotten Your law. <A name="155"></a><a href="/psalms/119-154.htm">154</a>Plead my plea, and redeem me, "" Quicken me according to Your saying. <A name="156"></a><a href="/psalms/119-155.htm">155</a>Salvation [is] far from the wicked, "" For they have not sought Your statutes. <A name="157"></a><a href="/psalms/119-156.htm">156</a>Your mercies [are] many, O YHWH, "" Quicken me according to Your judgments. <A name="158"></a><a href="/psalms/119-157.htm">157</a>My pursuers and adversaries are many, "" I have not turned aside from Your testimonies. <A name="159"></a><a href="/psalms/119-158.htm">158</a>I have seen treacherous ones, "" And grieve myself, "" Because they have not kept Your saying. <A name="160"></a><a href="/psalms/119-159.htm">159</a>See, for I have loved Your precepts, "" YHWH, quicken me according to Your kindness. <A name="161"></a><a href="/psalms/119-160.htm">160</a>The sum of Your word [is] truth, "" And every judgment of Your righteousness [is] for all time! <A name="162"></a><a href="/psalms/119-161.htm">161</a>[SHIN] Princes have pursued me without cause, "" And my heart was afraid because of Your words. <A name="163"></a><a href="/psalms/119-162.htm">162</a>I rejoice concerning Your saying, "" As one finding abundant spoil. <A name="164"></a><a href="/psalms/119-163.htm">163</a>I have hated falsehood, indeed I detest [it], "" I have loved Your law. <A name="165"></a><a href="/psalms/119-164.htm">164</a>Seven [times] in a day I have praised You, "" Because of the judgments of Your righteousness. <A name="166"></a><a href="/psalms/119-165.htm">165</a>Those loving Your law have abundant peace, "" And they have no stumbling-block. <A name="167"></a><a href="/psalms/119-166.htm">166</a>I have waited for Your salvation, O YHWH, "" And I have done Your commands. <A name="168"></a><a href="/psalms/119-167.htm">167</a>My soul has kept Your testimonies, "" And I love them exceedingly. <A name="169"></a><a href="/psalms/119-168.htm">168</a>I have kept Your precepts and Your testimonies, "" For all my ways are before You! <A name="170"></a><a href="/psalms/119-169.htm">169</a>[TAW] My loud cry comes near before You, O YHWH; Cause me to understand according to Your word. <A name="171"></a><a href="/psalms/119-170.htm">170</a>My supplication comes in before You, "" Deliver me according to Your saying. <A name="172"></a><a href="/psalms/119-171.htm">171</a>My lips utter praise, "" For You teach me Your statutes. <A name="173"></a><a href="/psalms/119-172.htm">172</a>My tongue sings of Your saying, "" For all Your commands [are] righteous. <A name="174"></a><a href="/psalms/119-173.htm">173</a>Your hand is for a help to me, "" For I have chosen Your commands. <A name="175"></a><a href="/psalms/119-174.htm">174</a>I have longed for Your salvation, O YHWH, "" And Your law [is] my delight. <A name="176"></a><a href="/psalms/119-175.htm">175</a>My soul lives, and it praises You, "" And Your judgments help me. <A name=""></a><a href="/psalms/119-176.htm">176</a>I wandered as a lost sheep, [so] seek Your servant, "" For I have not forgotten Your precepts! 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