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¹ Blessed are the blameless in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. ² Blessed are they that search out his testimonies: they will diligently seek him with the whole heart. ³ For they that work iniquity have not walked in his ways.

⁴ Thou hast commanded us diligently to keep thy precepts. ⁵ O that my ways were directed to keep thine ordinances. ⁶ Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all thy commandments.

⁷ I will give thee thanks with uprightness of heart, when I have learnt the judgments of thy righteousness. ⁸ I will keep thine ordinances: O forsake me not greatly.

⁹ Wherewith shall a young man direct his way? by keeping thy words.

¹⁰ With my whole heart have I diligently sought thee: cast me not away from thy commandments.

¹¹ I have hidden thine oracles in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.

¹² Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thine ordinances.

¹³ With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. ¹⁴ I have delighted in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. ¹⁵ I will meditate on thy commandments, and consider thy ways. ¹⁶ I will meditate on thine ordinances: I will not forget thy words.

¹⁷ Render a recompense to thy servant: so shall I live, and keep thy words.

¹⁸ Unveil thou mine eyes, and I shall perceive wondrous things of thy law.

¹⁹ I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

²⁰ My soul has longed exceedingly for thy judgments at all times.

²¹ Thou has rebuked the proud: cursed are they that turn aside from thy commandments.

²² Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have sought out thy testimonies.

²³ For princes sat and spoke against me: but thy servant was meditating on thine ordinances.

²⁴ For thy testimonies are my meditation, and thine ordinances are my counsellors.

²⁵ My soul has cleaved to the ground; quicken thou me according to thy word.

²⁶ I declared my ways, and thou didst hear me: teach me thine ordinances. ²⁷ Instruct me in the way of thine ordinances; and I will meditate on thy wondrous works.

²⁸ My soul has slumbered for sorrow; strengthen thou me with thy words. ²⁹ Remove from me the way of iniquity; and be merciful to me by thy law.

³⁰ I have chosen the way of truth; and have not forgotten thy judgments. ³¹ I have cleaved to thy testimonies, O Lord; put me not to shame. ³² I ran the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge my heart.

³³ Teach me, O Lord, the way of thine ordinances, and I will seek it out continually. ³⁴ Instruct me, and I will search out thy law, and will keep it with my whole heart.

³⁵ Guide me in the path of thy commandments; for I have delighted in it. ³⁶ Incline mine heart to thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

³⁷ Turn away mine eyes that I may not behold vanity: quicken thou me in thy way.

³⁸ Confirm thine oracle to thy servant, that he may fear thee.

³⁹ Take away my reproach which I have feared: for thy judgments are good.

⁴⁰ Behold, I have desired thy commandments: quicken me in thy righteousness.

⁴¹ And let thy mercy come upon me, O Lord; even thy salvation, according to thy word. ⁴² And so I shall render an answer to them that reproach me: for I have trusted in thy words.

⁴³ And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments. So shall I keep thy law continually, for ever and ever.

⁴⁵ I walked also at large: for I sought out thy commandments. ⁴⁶ And I spoke of thy testimonies before kings, and was not ashamed. ⁴⁷ And I meditated on thy commandments, which I loved exceedingly. ⁴⁸ And I lifted up my hands to thy commandments which I loved; and I meditated in thine ordinances.

⁴⁹ Remember thy words to thy servant, wherein thou hast made me hope.

⁵⁰ This has comforted me in mine affliction: for thine oracle has quickened me.

⁵¹ The proud have transgressed exceedingly; but I swerved not from thy law.

⁵² I remembered thy judgements of old, O Lord; and was comforted.

⁵³ Despair took hold upon me, because of the sinners who forsake thy law.

⁵⁴ Thine ordinances were my songs in the place of my sojourning.

⁵⁵ I remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night, and kept thy law. ⁵⁶ This I had, because I diligently sought thine ordinances.

⁵⁷ Thou art my portion, O Lord: I said that I would keep thy law.

⁵⁸ I besought thy favour with my whole heart: have mercy upon me according to thy word.

⁵⁹ I thought on thy ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies. ⁶⁰ I prepared myself, (and was not terrified,) to keep thy commandments.

⁶¹ The snares of sinners entangled me: but I forgot not thy law.

⁶² At midnight I arose, to give thanks to thee for the judgments of thy righteousness.

⁶³ I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy commandments.

⁶⁴ O Lord, the earth is full of thy mercy: teach me thine ordinances.

⁶⁵ Thou hast wrought kindly with thy servant, o Lord, according to thy word. ⁶⁶ Teach me kindness, and instruction, and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.

⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted, I transgressed; therefore have I kept thy word.

⁶⁸ Good art thou, O Lord; therefore in thy goodness teach me thine ordinances.

⁶⁹ The injustice of the proud has been multiplied against me: but I will search out thy commandments with all my heart. ⁷⁰ Their heart has been curdled like milk; but I have meditated on thy law.

⁷¹ It is good for me that thou hast afflicted me; that I might learn thine ordinances.

⁷² The law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.

⁷³ Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me: instruct me, that I may learn thy commandments.

⁷⁴ They that fear thee will see me and rejoice: for I have hoped in thy words.

⁷⁵ I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are righteousness, and that thou in truthfulness hast afflicted me.

⁷⁶ Let, I pray thee, thy mercy be to comfort me, according to thy word to thy servant. ⁷⁷ Let thy compassions come to me, that I may live: for thy law is my meditation.

⁷⁸ Let the proud be ashamed; for they transgressed against me unjustly: but I will meditate in thy commandments. ⁷⁹ Let those that fear thee, and those that know thy testimonies, turn to me.

⁸⁰ Let mine heart be blameless in thine ordinances, that I may not be ashamed.

⁸¹ My soul faints for thy salvation: I have hoped in thy words. ⁸² Mine eyes failed in waiting for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

⁸³ For I am become as a bottle in the frost: yet I have not forgotten thine ordinances.

⁸⁴ How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment for me on them that persecute me?

⁸⁵ Transgressors told me idle tales; but not according to thy law, O Lord. ⁸⁶ All thy commandments are truth; they persecuted me unjustly; help thou me. ⁸⁷ They nearly made an end of me in the earth; but I forsook not thy commandments.

⁸⁸ Quicken me according to thy mercy; so shall I keep the testimonies of thy mouth.

⁸⁹ Thy word, O Lord, abides in heaven for ever. ⁹⁰ Thy truth endures to all generations; thou hast founded the earth, and it abides. ⁹¹ The day continues by thy arrangement; for all things are thy servants.

⁹² Were it not that thy law is my meditation, then I should have perished in mine affliction.

⁹³ I will never forget thine ordinances; for with them thou hast quickened me.

⁹⁴ I am thine, save me; for I have sought out thine ordinances.

⁹⁵ Sinners laid wait for me to destroy me; but I understood thy testimonies.

⁹⁶  have seen an end of all perfection; but thy commandment is very broad.

⁹⁷ How I have loved thy law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the day.

⁹⁸ Thou hast made me wiser than mine enemies in thy commandment; for it is mine for ever. ⁹⁹ I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my medication. ¹⁰⁰ I understand more that the aged; because I have sought out thy commandments.

¹⁰¹ I have kept back my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy words.

¹⁰² I have not declined from thy judgments; for thou hast instructed me.

¹⁰³ How sweet are thine oracles to my throat! more so than honey to my mouth! ¹⁰⁴ I gain understanding by thy commandments: therefore I have hated every way of unrighteousness.

¹⁰⁵ Thy law is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths.

¹⁰⁶ I have sworn and determined to keep the judgments of thy righteousness.

¹⁰⁷ I have been very greatly afflicted, O Lord: quicken me, according to thy word.

¹⁰⁸ Accept, I pray thee, O Lord, the freewill-offerings of my mouth, and teach me thy judgments.

¹⁰⁹ My soul is continually in thine hands; and I have not forgotten thy law. ¹¹⁰ Sinners spread a snare for me; but I erred not from thy commandments.

¹¹¹ I have inherited thy testimonies for ever; for they are the joy of my heart. ¹¹² I have inclined my heart to perform thine ordinances for ever, in return for thy mercies.

¹¹³ I have hated transgressors; but I have loved thy law.

¹¹⁴ Thou art my helper and my supporter; I have hoped in thy words.

¹¹⁵ Depart from me, ye evil-doers; for I will search out the commandments of my God.

¹¹⁶ Uphold me according to thy word, and quicken me; and make me not ashamed of my expectation. ¹¹⁷ Help me, and I shall be saved; and I will meditate in thine ordinances continually.

¹¹⁸ Thou hast brought to nought all that depart from thine ordinances; for their inward thought is unrighteous. ¹¹⁹ I have reckoned all the sinners of the earth as transgressors; therefore have I loved thy testimonies. ¹²⁰ Penetrate my flesh with thy fear; for I am afraid of thy judgments.

¹²¹ I have done judgment and justice; deliver me not up to them that injure me. ¹²² Receive thy servant for good: let not the proud accuse me falsely.

¹²³ Mine eyes have failed for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.

¹²⁴ Deal with thy servant according to thy mercy, and teach me thine ordinances. ¹²⁵ I am thy servant; instruct me, and I shall know thy testimonies.

¹²⁶ It is time for the Lord to work: they have utterly broken thy law.

¹²⁷ Therefore have I loved thy commandments more than gold, or the topaz. ¹²⁸ Therefore I directed myself according to all thy commandments: I have hated every unjust way.

¹²⁹ Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore my soul has sought them out.

¹³⁰ The manifestation of thy words will enlighten, and instruct the simple.

¹³¹ I opened my mouth, and drew breath: for I earnestly longed after thy commandments.

¹³² Look upon me and have mercy upon me, after the manner of them that love thy name.

¹³³ Order my steps according to thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

¹³⁴ Deliver me from the false accusation of men: so will I keep thy commandments.

¹³⁵ Cause thy face to shine upon thy servant: and teach me thine ordinances.

¹³⁶ Mine eyes have been bathed in streams of water, because I kept not thy law.

¹³⁷ Righteous art thou, O Lord, and upright are thy judgments. ¹³⁸ Thou has commanded righteousness and perfect truth, as thy testimonies.

¹³⁹ Thy zeal has quite wasted me: because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.

¹⁴⁰ Thy word has been very fully tried; and thy servant loves it.

¹⁴¹ I am young and despised: yet I have not forgotten thine ordinances.

¹⁴² Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is truth.

¹⁴³ Afflictions and distresses found me: but thy commandments were my meditation. ¹⁴⁴ Thy testimonies are an everlasting righteousness: instruct me, and I shall live.

¹⁴⁵ I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord: I will search out thine ordinances. ¹⁴⁶ I cried to thee; save me, and I will keep thy testimonies.

¹⁴⁷ I arose before the dawn, and cried: I hoped in thy words. ¹⁴⁸ Mine eyes prevented the dawn, that I might meditate on thine oracles.

¹⁴⁹ Hear my voice, O Lord, according to thy mercy; quicken me according to thy judgment.

¹⁵⁰ They have drawn nigh who persecuted me unlawfully; and they are far removed from thy law. ¹⁵¹ Thou art near, O Lord; and all thy ways are truth.

¹⁵² I have known of old concerning thy testimonies, that thou hast founded them for ever.

¹⁵³ Look upon mine affliction, and rescue me; for I have not forgotten thy law. ¹⁵⁴ Plead my cause, and ransom me: quicken me because of thy word.

¹⁵⁵ Salvation is far from sinners: for they have not searched out thine ordinances.

¹⁵⁶ Thy mercies, O Lord, are many: quicken me according to thy judgment.

¹⁵⁷ Many are they that persecute me and oppress me: but I have not declined from thy testimonies.

¹⁵⁸ I beheld men acting foolishly, and I pined away; for they kept not thine oracles.

¹⁵⁹ Behold, I have loved thy commandments, O Lord: quicken me in thy mercy.

¹⁶⁰ The beginning of thy words is truth; and all the judgments of thy righteousness endure for ever.

¹⁶¹ Princes persecuted me without a cause, but my heart feared because of thy words.

¹⁶² I will exult because of thine oracles, as one that finds much spoil.

¹⁶³ I hate and abhor unrighteousness; but I love thy law.

¹⁶⁴ Seven times in a day have I praised thee because of the judgments of thy righteousness.

¹⁶⁵ Great peace have they that love thy law: and there is no stumbling-block to them.

¹⁶⁶ I waited for thy salvation, O Lord, and have loved thy commandments.

¹⁶⁷ My soul has kept thy testimonies, and loved them exceedingly. ¹⁶⁸ I have kept thy commandments and thy testimonies; for all my ways are before thee, O Lord.

¹⁶⁹ Let my supplication come near before thee, o Lord; instruct me according to thine oracle. ¹⁷⁰ Let my petition come in before thee, O Lord; deliver me according to thine oracle.

¹⁷¹ Let my lips utter a hymn, when thou shalt have taught me thine ordinances.

¹⁷² Let my tongue utter thine oracles; for all thy commandments are righteous.

¹⁷³ Let thine hand be prompt to save me; for I have chosen thy commandments. ¹⁷⁴ I have longed after thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my meditation.

¹⁷⁵ My soul shall live, and shall praise thee; and thy judgments shall help me.

¹⁷⁶ I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I have not forgotten thy commandments.