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1Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD! | 1ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. |
2Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, | 2Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. |
3who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! | 3They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. |
4You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. | 4Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. |
5Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! | 5O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! |
6Then I shall not be put to shame, having my eyes fixed on all your commandments. | 6Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. |
7I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules. | 7I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. |
8I will keep your statutes; do not utterly forsake me! | 8I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly. |
9How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. | 9BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. |
10With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! | 10With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. |
11I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. | 11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. |
12Blessed are you, O LORD; teach me your statutes! | 12Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes. |
13With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth. | 13With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. |
14In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches. | 14I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. |
15I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. | 15I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. |
16I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word. | 16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. |
17Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and keep your word. | 17GIMEL. Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word. |
18Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. | 18Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. |
19I am a sojourner on the earth; hide not your commandments from me! | 19I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. |
20My soul is consumed with longing for your rules at all times. | 20My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times. |
21You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones, who wander from your commandments. | 21Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments. |
22Take away from me scorn and contempt, for I have kept your testimonies. | 22Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. |
23Even though princes sit plotting against me, your servant will meditate on your statutes. | 23Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. |
24Your testimonies are my delight; they are my counselors. | 24Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellers. |
25My soul clings to the dust; give me life according to your word! | 25DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. |
26When I told of my ways, you answered me; teach me your statutes! | 26I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. |
27Make me understand the way of your precepts, and I will meditate on your wondrous works. | 27Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. |
28My soul melts away for sorrow; strengthen me according to your word! | 28My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. |
29Put false ways far from me and graciously teach me your law! | 29Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. |
30I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your rules before me. | 30I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. |
31I cling to your testimonies, O LORD; let me not be put to shame! | 31I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame. |
32I will run in the way of your commandments when you enlarge my heart! | 32I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. |
33Teach me, O LORD, the way of your statutes; and I will keep it to the end. | 33HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end. |
34Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart. | 34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. |
35Lead me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in it. | 35Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. |
36Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain! | 36Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. |
37Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways. | 37Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way. |
38Confirm to your servant your promise, that you may be feared. | 38Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear. |
39Turn away the reproach that I dread, for your rules are good. | 39Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good. |
40Behold, I long for your precepts; in your righteousness give me life! | 40Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness. |
41Let your steadfast love come to me, O LORD, your salvation according to your promise; | 41VAU. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word. |
42then shall I have an answer for him who taunts me, for I trust in your word. | 42So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word. |
43And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in your rules. | 43And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments. |
44I will keep your law continually, forever and ever, | 44So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever. |
45and I shall walk in a wide place, for I have sought your precepts. | 45And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts. |
46I will also speak of your testimonies before kings and shall not be put to shame, | 46I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed. |
47for I find my delight in your commandments, which I love. | 47And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved. |
48I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes. | 48My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes. |
49Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope. | 49ZAIN. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope. |
50This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life. | 50This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me. |
51The insolent utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from your law. | 51The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law. |
52When I think of your rules from of old, I take comfort, O LORD. | 52I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself. |
53Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked, who forsake your law. | 53Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law. |
54Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning. | 54Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. |
55I remember your name in the night, O LORD, and keep your law. | 55I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law. |
56This blessing has fallen to me, that I have kept your precepts. | 56This I had, because I kept thy precepts. |
57The LORD is my portion; I promise to keep your words. | 57CHETH. Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words. |
58I entreat your favor with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise. | 58I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word. |
59When I think on my ways, I turn my feet to your testimonies; | 59I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. |
60I hasten and do not delay to keep your commandments. | 60I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments. |
61Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me, I do not forget your law. | 61The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law. |
62At midnight I rise to praise you, because of your righteous rules. | 62At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments. |
63I am a companion of all who fear you, of those who keep your precepts. | 63I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts. |
64The earth, O LORD, is full of your steadfast love; teach me your statutes! | 64The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes. |
65You have dealt well with your servant, O LORD, according to your word. | 65TETH. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word. |
66Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments. | 66Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments. |
67Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word. | 67Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. |
68You are good and do good; teach me your statutes. | 68Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes. |
69The insolent smear me with lies, but with my whole heart I keep your precepts; | 69The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart. |
70their heart is unfeeling like fat, but I delight in your law. | 70Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law. |
71It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes. | 71It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. |
72The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces. | 72The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. |
73Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments. | 73JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments. |
74Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice, because I have hoped in your word. | 74They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word. |
75I know, O LORD, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me. | 75I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. |
76Let your steadfast love comfort me according to your promise to your servant. | 76Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant. |
77Let your mercy come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight. | 77Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight. |
78Let the insolent be put to shame, because they have wronged me with falsehood; as for me, I will meditate on your precepts. | 78Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts. |
79Let those who fear you turn to me, that they may know your testimonies. | 79Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies. |
80May my heart be blameless in your statutes, that I may not be put to shame! | 80Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed. |
81My soul longs for your salvation; I hope in your word. | 81CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. |
82My eyes long for your promise; I ask, “When will you comfort me?” | 82Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? |
83For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes. | 83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes. |
84How long must your servant endure? When will you judge those who persecute me? | 84How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? |
85The insolent have dug pitfalls for me; they do not live according to your law. | 85The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law. |
86All your commandments are sure; they persecute me with falsehood; help me! | 86All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. |
87They have almost made an end of me on earth, but I have not forsaken your precepts. | 87They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts. |
88In your steadfast love give me life, that I may keep the testimonies of your mouth. | 88Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth. |
89Forever, O LORD, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens. | 89LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. |
90Your faithfulness endures to all generations; you have established the earth, and it stands fast. | 90Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. |
91By your appointment they stand this day, for all things are your servants. | 91They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants. |
92If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction. | 92Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. |
93I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have given me life. | 93I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me. |
94I am yours; save me, for I have sought your precepts. | 94I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts. |
95The wicked lie in wait to destroy me, but I consider your testimonies. | 95The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies. |
96I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commandment is exceedingly broad. | 96I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad. |
97Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. | 97MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. |
98Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. | 98Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. |
99I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. | 99I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. |
100I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts. | 100I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. |
101I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word. | 101I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. |
102I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me. | 102I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. |
103How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! | 103How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! |
104Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. | 104Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. |
105Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. | 105NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. |
106I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to keep your righteous rules. | 106I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments. |
107I am severely afflicted; give me life, O LORD, according to your word! | 107I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word. |
108Accept my freewill offerings of praise, O LORD, and teach me your rules. | 108Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments. |
109I hold my life in my hand continually, but I do not forget your law. | 109My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. |
110The wicked have laid a snare for me, but I do not stray from your precepts. | 110The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. |
111Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart. | 111Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart. |
112I incline my heart to perform your statutes forever, to the end. | 112I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end. |
113I hate the double-minded, but I love your law. | 113SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. |
114You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word. | 114Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word. |
115Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God. | 115Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God. |
116Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to shame in my hope! | 116Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. |
117Hold me up, that I may be safe and have regard for your statutes continually! | 117Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually. |
118You spurn all who go astray from your statutes, for their cunning is in vain. | 118Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood. |
119All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross, therefore I love your testimonies. | 119Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies. |
120My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments. | 120My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments. |
121I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors. | 121AIN. I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors. |
122Give your servant a pledge of good; let not the insolent oppress me. | 122Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me. |
123My eyes long for your salvation and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise. | 123Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness. |
124Deal with your servant according to your steadfast love, and teach me your statutes. | 124Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes. |
125I am your servant; give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies! | 125I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies. |
126It is time for the LORD to act, for your law has been broken. | 126It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law. |
127Therefore I love your commandments above gold, above fine gold. | 127Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. |
128Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right; I hate every false way. | 128Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way. |
129Your testimonies are wonderful; therefore my soul keeps them. | 129PE. Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. |
130The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple. | 130The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. |
131I open my mouth and pant, because I long for your commandments. | 131I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments. |
132Turn to me and be gracious to me, as is your way with those who love your name. | 132Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. |
133Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me. | 133Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. |
134Redeem me from man’s oppression, that I may keep your precepts. | 134Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts. |
135Make your face shine upon your servant, and teach me your statutes. | 135Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes. |
136My eyes shed streams of tears, because people do not keep your law. | 136Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. |
137Righteous are you, O LORD, and right are your rules. | 137TZADDI. Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments. |
138You have appointed your testimonies in righteousness and in all faithfulness. | 138Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful. |
139My zeal consumes me, because my foes forget your words. | 139My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. |
140Your promise is well tried, and your servant loves it. | 140Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it. |
141I am small and despised, yet I do not forget your precepts. | 141I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts. |
142Your righteousness is righteous forever, and your law is true. | 142Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth. |
143Trouble and anguish have found me out, but your commandments are my delight. | 143Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights. |
144Your testimonies are righteous forever; give me understanding that I may live. | 144The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live. |
145With my whole heart I cry; answer me, O LORD! I will keep your statutes. | 145KOPH. I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes. |
146I call to you; save me, that I may observe your testimonies. | 146I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies. |
147I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in your words. | 147I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word. |
148My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promise. | 148Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word. |
149Hear my voice according to your steadfast love; O LORD, according to your justice give me life. | 149Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment. |
150They draw near who persecute me with evil purpose; they are far from your law. | 150They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law. |
151But you are near, O LORD, and all your commandments are true. | 151Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth. |
152Long have I known from your testimonies that you have founded them forever. | 152Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever. |
153Look on my affliction and deliver me, for I do not forget your law. | 153RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. |
154Plead my cause and redeem me; give me life according to your promise! | 154Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word. |
155Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek your statutes. | 155Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes. |
156Great is your mercy, O LORD; give me life according to your rules. | 156Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. |
157Many are my persecutors and my adversaries, but I do not swerve from your testimonies. | 157Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies. |
158I look at the faithless with disgust, because they do not keep your commands. | 158I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word. |
159Consider how I love your precepts! Give me life according to your steadfast love. | 159Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness. |
160The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever. | 160Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever. |
161Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words. | 161SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word. |
162I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil. | 162I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil. |
163I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love your law. | 163I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love. |
164Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous rules. | 164Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments. |
165Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble. | 165Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. |
166I hope for your salvation, O LORD, and I do your commandments. | 166LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. |
167My soul keeps your testimonies; I love them exceedingly. | 167My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly. |
168I keep your precepts and testimonies, for all my ways are before you. | 168I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee. |
169Let my cry come before you, O LORD; give me understanding according to your word! | 169TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word. |
170Let my plea come before you; deliver me according to your word. | 170Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word. |
171My lips will pour forth praise, for you teach me your statutes. | 171My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes. |
172My tongue will sing of your word, for all your commandments are right. | 172My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness. |
173Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts. | 173Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts. |
174I long for your salvation, O LORD, and your law is my delight. | 174I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight. |
175Let my soul live and praise you, and let your rules help me. | 175Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me. |
176I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments. | 176I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments. |
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