140Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
141I am small and despised: yet I do not forget thy precepts.
142Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
143Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
144The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
145KOPH. I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
146I cried to thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
147I came before the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
148My eyes anticipated the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
149Hear my voice, according to thy loving-kindness: O LORD, revive me according to thy judgment.
150They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
151Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.
152Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
153RESH. Consider my affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
154Plead my cause, and deliver me: revive me according to thy word.
155Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
156Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: revive me according to thy judgments.
157Many are my persecutors and my enemies; yet I do not decline from thy testimonies.
158I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
159Consider how I love thy precepts: revive me, O LORD, according to thy loving-kindness.
160Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
161SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
162I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
163I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
164Seven times a day do I praise thee, because of thy righteous judgments.