Psalms 119

¹ Happy are those whose way is flawless, Who are walking in the law of Yahweh. ² Happy are those preserving His testimonies; With all their heart, they are seeking after Him. ³ Indeed, they do not contrive iniquity; In His ways they walk. ⁴ You Yourself have enjoined that Your precepts Are to be kept very faithfully. ⁵ O that my ways should be established To keep Your statutes. ⁶ Then I should not be ashamed When I look to all Your instructions. ⁷ I shall acclaim You in uprightness of heart, While I learn Your righteous ordinances. ⁸ Your statutes shall I keep; O do not forsake me utterly. ⁹ Whereby shall a youth purge his path? By keeping Your word. ¹⁰ With all my heart, I have sought after You; O do not let me err from Your instructions. ¹¹ In my heart have I stored up Your promise, That I may not sin against You. ¹² Blessed be You, O Yahweh; Teach me Your statutes. ¹³ With my lips I recount All the ordinances from Your mouth. ¹⁴ In the way of Your testimonies I am elated, As over all wealth. ¹⁵ I will meditate in Your precepts, And I will scrutinize Your paths. ¹⁶ In Your statutes am I reveling; I am not forgetting Your word. ¹⁷ Deal bountifully with Your servant, That I may live and keep Your word. ¹⁸ Expose my eyes that I may scrutinize The marvels of Your law. ¹⁹ I am a sojourner upon the earth; O do not conceal Your instructions from me. ²⁰ My soul is broken up by an ardent desire For Your ordinances in every season. ²¹ You rebuke the arrogant, who are accursed, Who are erring from Your instructions. ²² Roll reproach and contempt away from me, For I have preserved Your testimonies. ²³ Even though chiefs have sat and plotted against me, Your servant, he shall meditate on Your statutes; ²⁴ Even so Your testimonies are my delectations, Your statutes are my men of counsel. ²⁵ My soul clings to the soil; Revive me according to Your word. ²⁶ I have recounted my ways, and You answered me; Teach me Your statutes. ²⁷ Make me understand the way of Your precepts, And I will meditate on Your marvelous works. ²⁸ My soul is racked with affliction; Raise me up according to Your word. ²⁹ Withdraw the false way from me, And favor me with Your own law. ³⁰ The way of faithfulness have I chosen; Your ordinances have I poised before me. ³¹ I cling to Your testimonies; O Yahweh, let me not be put to shame. ³² In the way of Your instructions shall I run, For You are widening my heart. ³³ Direct me, O Yahweh, in the way of Your statutes, That I may preserve it as the consequence. ³⁴ Make me understand, and I will preserve Your law And keep it with all my heart. ³⁵ Cause me to tread in the track of Your instructions, For I delight in it. ³⁶ Stretch out my heart to Your testimonies, And not at all to selfish gain. ³⁷ Avert my eyes from looking at futile things; Revive me in Your way. ³⁸ Confirm for Your servant Your promise That leads me to the fear of You. ³⁹ Cause my reproach, from which I shrink, to pass away, For Your ordinances are good. ⁴⁰ Behold, I ardently desire Your precepts; Revive me in Your righteousness. ⁴¹ And let Your benignities come to me, O Yahweh, Your salvation according to Your promise. ⁴² Then I shall have a word to answer the one reproaching me. For I trust in Your word. ⁴³ And do not divert the word of truth from my mouth utterly, For I have set my hope in Your ordinances. ⁴⁴ I will keep your law continually, For the eon and further. ⁴⁵ I will walk in wideness, For I have sought after Your precepts. ⁴⁶ I will speak of Your testimonies in front of kings And not be ashamed. ⁴⁷ For I am reveling in Your instructions Which I love. ⁴⁸ Thus I am lifting my palms unto Your instructions that I love, And I will meditate on Your statutes. ⁴⁹ Remember Your word to Your servant, On which You have set my hope. ⁵⁰ This is my consolation in my humiliation, That Your promise revives me. ⁵¹ The arrogant, they mock me exceedingly, Yet I do not turn aside from Your law. ⁵² I remember Your ordinances from the eon, O Yahweh, And I find comfort for myself. ⁵³ A simoon storm has taken hold of me because of the wicked Who are forsaking Your law. ⁵⁴ Your statutes, they have become psalms to me In the house of my sojournings. ⁵⁵ I remember Your Name in the night, O Yahweh, That I may keep Your law. ⁵⁶ This has become my practice, That I preserve Your precepts. ⁵⁷ You are my Portion, O Yahweh; I have promised to keep Your words. ⁵⁸ I have beseeched Your presence with all my heart; Be gracious to me according to Your promise. ⁵⁹ I have taken account of my ways; So let me turn back my feet to Your testimonies. ⁶⁰ I hurry and do not dally To keep Your instructions. ⁶¹ The cables of the wicked, they bind me about, Yet I do not forget Your law. ⁶² At midnight I arise to acclaim You For Your righteous ordinances. ⁶³ I am a partner to all who fear You, And to those keeping Your precepts. ⁶⁴ Your benignity, O Yahweh, it fills the earth; Teach me Your statutes. ⁶⁵ You have dealt well with Your servant, O Yahweh, according to Your word. ⁶⁶ Teach me good discretion and knowledge, For I rely upon Your instructions. ⁶⁷ Before I was humbled, I was erring, But now I keep Your promise close. ⁶⁸ You are good and are doing us good; Teach me Your statutes. ⁶⁹ The arrogant smear me with falsehood; As for me, with all my heart I preserve Your precepts. ⁷⁰ Stolid like fat is their heart; As for me, I revel in Your law. ⁷¹ It is good for me that I was humbled, That I may learn Your statutes. ⁷² Better to me is the law of Your mouth Than thousands of gold and silver. ⁷³ Your hands, they have made me and are establishing me; Give me understanding so I may learn Your instructions. ⁷⁴ May those fearing You see me and rejoice, For I set my hope in Your word. ⁷⁵ I know, O Yahweh, that Your ordinances are righteous, And You have humbled me in faithfulness. ⁷⁶ Now may Your benignity become my comfort, According to Your promise to Your servant. ⁷⁷ May Your compassions come on me that I may live, For Your law is my delectation. ⁷⁸ May the arrogant be ashamed, for without cause have they distorted me; As for me, I shall meditate on Your precepts. ⁷⁹ May those fearing You turn back to me, Those knowing Your testimonies. ⁸⁰ May my heart become flawless in Your statutes, That I may not be ashamed. ⁸¹ My soul is exhausted looking for Your salvation; I have set my hope in Your word. ⁸² My eyes are exhausted looking for Your promise, Asking, When shall You comfort me? ⁸³ Though I have become like an unused skin-bottle, hanging in smoke fumes, I have not forgotten Your statutes. ⁸⁴ How long are the days of Your servant? When shall You bring judgment upon my persecutors? ⁸⁵ The arrogant dig pits to trap me, Who do not act according to Your law. ⁸⁶ All Your instructions are faithful, But they persecute me without cause; O help me. ⁸⁷ Soon they would finish me from the earth, Yet I myself have not forsaken Your precepts. ⁸⁸ Revive me according to Your benignity, And I will keep the testimony of Your mouth. ⁸⁹ For the eon, O Yahweh, Your word is stationed in the heavens. ⁹⁰ For generation after generation is Your faithfulness; You have established the earth, and it shall stand. ⁹¹ They stand today by Your ordinances, For they all are Your servants. ⁹² Unless Your law had been my delectation, Then I would have perished in my humiliation. ⁹³ For the eon I shall not forget Your precepts, For by them have You revived me. ⁹⁴ I am Yours; save me, For I have sought after Your precepts. ⁹⁵ The wicked stretch out toward me to destroy me, But I gain understanding of Your testimonies. ⁹⁶ I have seen the end of every aspiration, Yet Your instruction is very wide. ⁹⁷ How I love Your law! The entire day it is my meditation. ⁹⁸ Your instruction makes me wiser than my enemies, For it is with me for the eon. ⁹⁹ I have gained insight more than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ I have gained more understanding than elders, For I preserve Your precepts. ¹⁰¹ I detain my feet from every evil path, That I may keep Your word. ¹⁰² I do not withdraw from Your ordinances, For You Yourself direct me. ¹⁰³ How savory are Your promises to my palate, Better than honey to my mouth! ¹⁰⁴ From Your precepts I gain understanding; Therefore I hate every false path. ¹⁰⁵ Your word is a lamp to my feet, And a light to my tracks. ¹⁰⁶ I have sworn - let me confirm it - To keep Your righteous ordinances. ¹⁰⁷ I am humbled utterly; O Yahweh, revive me according to Your word. ¹⁰⁸ Do accept the voluntary offerings of my mouth, O Yahweh, And teach me Your ordinances. ¹⁰⁹ My soul is placed in my palms continually, Yet I do not forget Your law. ¹¹⁰ Wicked ones have placed a snare for me, Yet I do not stray from Your precepts. ¹¹¹ I am allotted Your testimonies for the eon; Indeed they are the elation of my heart. ¹¹² I stretch out my heart to perform Your statutes; The consequence is for the eon. ¹¹³ I hate forked tongues, But I love Your law. ¹¹⁴ My Concealment and my Shield are You; I set my hope in Your word. ¹¹⁵ Go away from me, you evildoers; I will preserve the instructions of my Elohim. ¹¹⁶ Support me according to Your promise that I may live, And let me not be put to shame because of my hopefulness. ¹¹⁷ Brace me that I may be saved, And I will continually heed Your statutes. ¹¹⁸ You have cast aside all those erring from Your statutes, For their deceitfulness shows their falsity. ¹¹⁹ You have reckoned all the wicked of the earth as dross; Therefore I love Your testimonies. ¹²⁰ My flesh bristles from awe of You, And I fear Your judgments. ¹²¹ I have performed right judgment and righteousness; Do not leave me to those extorting me. ¹²² Be surety for Your servant's well-being; Let not the arrogant be extorting me. ¹²³ My eyes, they are exhausted, looking for Your salvation And for Your righteous promise. ¹²⁴ Deal with Your servant according to Your benignity, And teach me Your statutes. ¹²⁵ I am Your servant; give me understanding So that I may know Your testimonies. ¹²⁶ It is the season for Yahweh to act; They annul Your law. ¹²⁷ Therefore I love Your instructions More than gold, even than glittering gold. ¹²⁸ Therefore all Your precepts do I hold upright; Every false path do I hate. ¹²⁹ Marvelous are Your testimonies; Therefore my soul preserves them. ¹³⁰ The opening of Your words is enlightening, Making the simple proficient. ¹³¹ With my mouth I gape; so let me gasp, For I ardently desire Your instructions. ¹³² Turn toward me and be gracious to me According to the custom for those loving Your Name. ¹³³ Establish my footsteps in Your promise, And let not any lawlessness have authority over me. ¹³⁴ Ransom me from human extortion, And I will keep Your precepts. ¹³⁵ Let Your face enlighten Your servant, And teach me Your statutes. ¹³⁶ Rillets of water, they descend from my eyes Because men do not keep Your law. ¹³⁷ You are righteous, O Yahweh, And Your judgments are upright. ¹³⁸ Your testimonies which You have enjoined are righteous And very faithful. ¹³⁹ My zeal gnaws at me, For my foes forget Your words. ¹⁴⁰ Refined is Your promise exceedingly, And Your servant, he loves it. ¹⁴¹ I am insignificant and despised, Yet I do not forget Your precepts. ¹⁴² Your righteousness is eonian righteousness, And Your law is truth. ¹⁴³ Though distress and constraint have converged on me, Your instructions are my delectations. ¹⁴⁴ Your testimonies are eonian righteousness; Give me understanding that I may live. ¹⁴⁵ I call out with all my heart; answer me, O Yahweh; I will preserve Your statutes. ¹⁴⁶ I call out to You; O save me, And I will keep Your testimonies. ¹⁴⁷ I rise before the morning gloaming, that I may implore; I set my hope in Your words. ¹⁴⁸ My wakeful eyes have gone before the night vigils To meditate on Your promise. ¹⁴⁹ Do hear my voice according to Your benignity; O Yahweh, according to Your right judgment, revive me. ¹⁵⁰ Those persecuting me draw near with evil scheme; They are far from Your law. ¹⁵¹ You are near, O Yahweh, And all Your instructions are truth. ¹⁵² Long ago I came to know from Your testimonies That You had founded them for the eon. ¹⁵³ See my humiliation, and liberate me, For I have not forgotten Your law. ¹⁵⁴ Do contend my cause and redeem me; Revive me with Your promise. ¹⁵⁵ Far from the wicked is salvation, For they do not seek after Your statutes. ¹⁵⁶ Your compassions are many, O Yahweh; Revive me according to Your ordinances. ¹⁵⁷ Many are my persecutors and my foes, Yet I do not turn aside from Your testimonies. ¹⁵⁸ I see the treacherous, and I am disgusted Because they do not keep Your promise close. ¹⁵⁹ See how I love Your precepts; O Yahweh, according to Your benignity revive me. ¹⁶⁰ The sum of Your word is truth, And all of Your righteous ordinances are eonian. ¹⁶¹ Chief men, they persecute me gratuitously, Yet my heart stands in awe before Your word. ¹⁶² I am elated over Your promise Like one finding much loot. ¹⁶³ I hate what is false, and I will always abhor it; I love Your law. ¹⁶⁴ Seven times in a day I praise You For Your righteous ordinances. ¹⁶⁵ Much peace is for those loving Your law, And there is no stumbling block for them. ¹⁶⁶ I look forward to Your salvation, O Yahweh, And I perform Your instructions. ¹⁶⁷ My soul keeps Your testimonies, And I love them exceedingly. ¹⁶⁸ I keep Your precepts and Your testimonies, For all my ways are in front of You. ¹⁶⁹ May my appeal come near before You, O Yahweh; According to Your word, give me understanding. ¹⁷⁰ May my supplication come before You; According to Your promise, rescue me. ¹⁷¹ May my lips utter praise, For You teach me Your statutes. ¹⁷² May my tongue sing in response to Your promise, For all Your instructions are righteous. ¹⁷³ May Your hand be ready to help me, For I have chosen Your precepts. ¹⁷⁴ I ardently desire Your salvation, O Yahweh, And Your law is my delectation. ¹⁷⁵ May my soul live and praise You, And may Your ordinances help me. ¹⁷⁶ I have strayed like a lost flockling; seek Your servant, For I have not forgotten Your instructions.