¹ Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. ² Blessed are those keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. ³ They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. ⁴ you have commanded us to keep your precepts diligently. ⁵ O that my ways were directed to keep your statutes! ⁶ Then will I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all your commandments. ⁷ I will praise you with uprightness of heart, when I will have learned your righteous judgments. ⁸ I will keep your statutes: O abandon me not utterly . BETH. ⁹ Wherewithal will a young man cleanse his way? by taking care thereto according to your word. ¹⁰ With my whole heart have I sought you: O let me not wander from your commandments. ¹¹ your word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against you. ¹² Blessed are you, O LORD: teach me your statutes. ¹³ With my lips have I declared all the judgments of your mouth. ¹⁴ I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches. ¹⁵ I will meditate in your precepts, and have respect to your ways. ¹⁶ I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word . GIMEL. ¹⁷ Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live, and keep your word. ¹⁸ Open you my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law. ¹⁹ I am a stranger in the earth: hide not your commandments from me. ²⁰ My soul breaks for the longing that it has to your judgments at all times. ²¹ you have rebuked the proud that are cursed, which stray from your commandments. ²² Remove from me rebuke and contempt for I have kept your testimonies. ²³ Princes also did sit and speak against me: but your servant did meditate in your statutes. ²⁴ your testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors . DALETH. ²⁵ My soul splits to the dust: quicken you me according to your word. ²⁶ I have declared my ways, and you hears me: teach me your statutes. ²⁷ Make me to understand the way of your precepts: so will I talk of your wondrous works. ²⁸ My soul melts for heaviness: strengthen you me according to your word. ²⁹ Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me your law graciously. ³⁰ I have chosen the way of truth: your judgments have I laid [before me]. ³¹ I have stuck to your testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame. ³² I will run the way of your commandments, when you will enlarge my heart . HE. ³³ Teach me, O LORD, the way of your statutes; and I will keep it unto the end. ³⁴ Give me understanding, and I will keep your law; yes, I will observe it with my whole heart. ³⁵ Make me to go in the path of your commandments for in it do I delight. ³⁶ Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to covetousness. ³⁷ Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity and quicken you me in your way. ³⁸ Stablish your word to your servant, who is devoted to your fear. ³⁹ Turn away my rebuke which I fear: for your judgments are good. ⁴⁰ See, I have longed after your precepts: quicken me in your righteousness . VAU. ⁴¹ Let your mercies come also to me, O LORD, even your salvation, according to your word. ⁴² So will I have with which to answer him that rebukes me: for I trust in your word. ⁴³ And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth for I have hoped in your judgments. ⁴⁴ So will I keep your law continually forever and ever. ⁴⁵ And I will walk at liberty: for I seek your precepts. ⁴⁶ I will speak of your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed. ⁴⁷ And I will delight myself in your commandments, which I have loved. ⁴⁸ My hands also will I lift up to your commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in your statutes . ZAIN. ⁴⁹ Remember the word to your servant, on which you have caused me to hope. ⁵⁰ This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has quickened me. ⁵¹ The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from your law. ⁵² I remembered your judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself. ⁵³ Horror has taken hold on me because of the wicked that abandon your law. ⁵⁴ your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. ⁵⁵ I have remembered your name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept your law. ⁵⁶ This I had, because I kept your precepts . CHETH. ⁵⁷ you are my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep your words. ⁵⁸ I intreated your favour with my whole heart: be merciful to me according to your word. ⁵⁹ I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to your testimonies. ⁶⁰ I made haste, and delayed not to keep your commandments. ⁶¹ The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten your law. ⁶² At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you because of your righteous judgments. ⁶³ I am a companion of all them that fear you, and of them that keep your precepts. ⁶⁴ The earth, O LORD, is full of your mercy: teach me your statutes . TETH. ⁶⁵ you have dealt well with your servant, O LORD, according to your word. ⁶⁶ Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed your commandments. ⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept your word. ⁶⁸ you are good, and does good; teach me your statutes. ⁶⁹ The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep your precepts with my whole heart. ⁷⁰ Their heart is as fat as grease but I delight in your law. ⁷¹ It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn your statutes. ⁷² The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver . JOD. ⁷³ your hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments. ⁷⁴ Those fear you will be glad when they see me because I have hoped in your word. ⁷⁵ I know, O LORD, that your judgments are right, and that you in faithfulness have afflicted me. ⁷⁶ Let, I pray you, your merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant. ⁷⁷ Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live: for your law is my delight. ⁷⁸ Let the proud be ashamed for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in your precepts. ⁷⁹ Let those that fear you turn to me, and those that have known your testimonies. ⁸⁰ Let my heart be sound in your statutes that I be not ashamed . CAPH. ⁸¹ My soul faints for your salvation: but I hope in your word. ⁸² My eyes fail for your word, saying, When will you comfort me? ⁸³ For I am become like a bottle in the smoke yet do I not forget your statutes. ⁸⁴ How many are the days of your servant? when will you execute judgment on them that persecute me? ⁸⁵ The proud have dug pits for me, which are not after your law. ⁸⁶ All your commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully help you me. ⁸⁷ They had almost consumed me on earth but I forsook not your precepts. ⁸⁸ Quicken me after your lovingkindness so will I keep the testimony of your mouth . LAMED. ⁸⁹ For ever, O LORD, your word is settled in heaven. ⁹⁰ your faithfulness is to all generations: you have established the earth, and it abides. ⁹¹ They continue this day according to your ordinances: for all are your servants. ⁹² Unless your law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. ⁹³ I will never forget your precepts: for with them you have quickened me. ⁹⁴ I am yours, save me; for I have sought your precepts. ⁹⁵ The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider your testimonies. ⁹⁶ I have seen an end of all perfection: but your commandment is exceeding broad . MEM. ⁹⁷ O how love I your law! it is my meditation all the day. ⁹⁸ you through your commandments have made me wiser than my enemies: for they are ever with me. ⁹⁹ I have more understanding than all my teachers: for your testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ I understand more than the ancients, because I keep your precepts. ¹⁰¹ I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep your word. ¹⁰² I have not departed from your judgments: for you have taught me. ¹⁰³ How sweet are your words to my taste! yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth! ¹⁰⁴ Through your precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way . NUN. ¹⁰⁵ your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. ¹⁰⁶ I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep your righteous judgments. ¹⁰⁷ I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according to your word. ¹⁰⁸ Accept, I beg you, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me your judgments. ¹⁰⁹ My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget your law. ¹¹⁰ The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I wandered not from your precepts. ¹¹¹ your testimonies have I taken as a heritage forever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart. ¹¹² I have inclined mine heart to perform your statutes always, even unto the end . SAMECH. ¹¹³ I hate vain thoughts: but your law do I love. ¹¹⁴ you are my hiding place and my shield: I hope in your word. ¹¹⁵ Depart from me, you evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God. ¹¹⁶ Uphold me according to your word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. ¹¹⁷ Hold you me up, and I will be safe: and I will have respect to your statutes continually. ¹¹⁸ you have trodden down all them that stray from your statutes: for their deceit is falsehood. ¹¹⁹ you puts away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love your testimonies. ¹²⁰ My flesh trembles for fear of you and I am afraid of your judgments . AIN. ¹²¹ I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors. ¹²² Be guarantee for your servant for good: let not the proud oppress me. ¹²³ My eyes fail for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness. ¹²⁴ Deal with your servant according to your mercy, and teach me your statutes. ¹²⁵ I am your servant; give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies. ¹²⁶ It is time for you, LORD, to work: for they have made void your law. ¹²⁷ Therefore I love your commandments above gold; yes, above fine gold. ¹²⁸ Therefore I esteem all your precepts concerning all things to be right and I hate every false way . PE. ¹²⁹ your testimonies are wonderful: therefore does my soul keep them. ¹³⁰ The entrance of your words gives light it gives understanding to the simple. ¹³¹ I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for your commandments. ¹³² Look you on me, and be merciful to me, as you usest to do to those that love your name. ¹³³ Order my steps in your word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. ¹³⁴ Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep your precepts. ¹³⁵ Make your face to shine on your servant and teach me your statutes. ¹³⁶ Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not your law . TZADDI. ¹³⁷ Righteous are you, O LORD, and upright are your judgments. ¹³⁸ your testimonies that you have commanded are righteous and very faithful. ¹³⁹ My zeal has consumed me, because my enemies have forgotten your words. ¹⁴⁰ your word is very pure: therefore your servant loves it. ¹⁴¹ I am small and despised: yet do not I forget your precepts. ¹⁴² your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is the truth. ¹⁴³ Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet your commandments are my delights. ¹⁴⁴ The righteousness of your testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I will live . KOPH. ¹⁴⁵ I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep your statutes. ¹⁴⁶ I cried to you; save me, and I will keep your testimonies. ¹⁴⁷ I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in your word. ¹⁴⁸ My eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in your word. ¹⁴⁹ Hear my voice according to your lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to your judgment. ¹⁵⁰ They draw near that follow after mischief: they are far from your law. ¹⁵¹ you are near, O LORD; and all your commandments are truth. ¹⁵² Concerning your testimonies, I have known of old that you have founded them forever . RESH. ¹⁵³ Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget your law. ¹⁵⁴ Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to your word. ¹⁵⁵ Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not your statutes. ¹⁵⁶ Great are your tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to your judgments. ¹⁵⁷ Many are my persecutors and my enemies yet do I not decline from your testimonies. ¹⁵⁸ I saw the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not your word. ¹⁵⁹ Consider how I love your precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to your lovingkindness. ¹⁶⁰ your word is true from the beginning: and every one of your righteous judgments endures forever . SCHIN. ¹⁶¹ Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart stands in awe of your word. ¹⁶² I rejoice at your word, as one that finds great spoil. ¹⁶³ I hate and abhor lying: but your law do I love. ¹⁶⁴ Seven times a day do I praise you because of your righteous judgments. ¹⁶⁵ Great peace have they which love your law: and nothing will offend them. ¹⁶⁶ LORD, I have hoped for your salvation, and done your commandments. ¹⁶⁷ My soul has kept your testimonies and I love them exceedingly. ¹⁶⁸ I have kept your precepts and your testimonies: for all my ways [are] before you. TAU ¹⁶⁹ Let my cry come near before you, O LORD: give me understanding according to your word. ¹⁷⁰ Let my supplication come before you: deliver me according to your word. ¹⁷¹ My lips will utter praise, when you have taught me your statutes. ¹⁷² My tongue will speak of your word: for all your commandments are righteousness. ¹⁷³ Let your hand help me for I have chosen your precepts. ¹⁷⁴ I have longed for your salvation, O LORD; and your law is my delight. ¹⁷⁵ Let my soul live, and it will praise you; and let your judgments help me. ¹⁷⁶ I have gone astray like a lost sheep seek your servant for I do not forget your commandments.