Psalms 119:73-98

⁷³YOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, and I will learn thy commandments.

⁷⁴They that fear thee will see me, and rejoice; because I have hoped in thy word.

⁷⁵I know, Jehovah, that thy Judgments are righteousness, and that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.

⁷⁶Oh let thy loving-kindness be for my comfort, according to thy *word unto thy servant.

⁷⁷Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live; for thy law is my delight.

⁷⁸Let the proud be ashamed; for they have acted perversely towards me with falsehood: as for me, I meditate in thy precepts.

⁷⁹Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that know thy testimonies.

⁸⁰Let my heart be perfect in thy statutes, that I be not ashamed.

⁸¹CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation; I hope in thy word.

⁸²Mine eyes fail for thy *word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

⁸³For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; I do not forget thy statutes.

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

⁸⁵The proud have digged pits for me, which is not according to thy law.

⁸⁶All thy commandments are faithfulness. They persecute me wrongfully: help thou me.

⁸⁷They had almost consumed me upon the earth; but as for me, I forsook not thy precepts.

⁸⁸Quicken me according to thy loving-kindness, and I will keep the testimony of thy mouth.

⁸⁹LAMED. For ever, O Jehovah, thy word is settled in the heavens.

⁹⁰Thy faithfulness is from generation to generation: thou hast established the earth, and it standeth.

⁹¹By thine ordinances they stand this day; for all things are thy servants.

⁹²Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

⁹³I will never forget thy precepts; for by them thou hast quickened me.

⁹⁴I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.

⁹⁵The wicked have awaited me to destroy me; but I attend unto thy testimonies.

⁹⁶I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is exceeding broad.

⁹⁷MEM. Oh how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

⁹⁸Thy commandments make me wiser than mine enemies; for they are ever with me.