PSALM 119



Ps 119:1 Blessed are those whose way is perfect, / Who walk in the law of Jehovah.

Ps 119:2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, / Who seek Him with all their heart.

Ps 119:3 Surely they do no wrong; / They walk in His ways.

Ps 119:4 You have commanded that Your precepts / Be diligently kept.

Ps 119:5 Oh that my ways may be established / So as to keep Your statutes!

Ps 119:6 Then I will not be put to shame, / When I regard all Your commandments.

Ps 119:7 I will give thanks to You with uprightness of heart / When I learn Your righteous ordinances.

Ps 119:8 I will keep Your statutes; / Do not utterly forsake me.

Ps 119:9 With what should a young man keep his way pure? / By guarding it according to Your word.

Ps 119:10 With all my heart I have sought You; / Do not let me wander from Your commandments.

Ps 119:11 In my heart I have treasured up Your word / That I might not sin against You.

Ps 119:12 Blessed are You, O Jehovah; / Teach me Your statutes.

Ps 119:13 With my lips I have declared / All the ordinances of Your mouth.

Ps 119:14 I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies / As much as in all riches.

Ps 119:15 I will muse upon Your precepts / And regard Your ways.

Ps 119:16 I will take delight in Your statutes; / I will not forget Your word.

Ps 119:17 Deal bountifully with Your servant that I may live / And keep Your word.

Ps 119:18 Open my eyes that I may behold / Wondrous things out of Your law.

Ps 119:19 I am a sojourner in the earth; / Do not hide Your commandments from me.

Ps 119:20 My soul is crushed with longing / For Your ordinances at all times.

Ps 119:21 You have rebuked the proud, the cursed, / Who wander from Your commandments.

Ps 119:22 Roll away from me reproach and contempt, / For I have kept Your testimonies.

Ps 119:23 Princes as well have sat and spoken against me, / But Your servant mused upon Your statutes.

Ps 119:24 Also Your testimonies are my delight; / They are my counselors.

Ps 119:25 My soul clings to the dust; / Enliven me according to Your word.

Ps 119:26 I have recounted my ways, and You have answered me; / Teach me Your statutes.

Ps 119:27 Cause me to understand the way of Your precepts, / And I will muse upon Your wondrous deeds.

Ps 119:28 My soul melts because of grief; / Strengthen me according to Your word.

Ps 119:29 Remove from me the way of falsehood, / And graciously grant me Your law.

Ps 119:30 I have chosen the way of faithfulness; / Your ordinances I have set before me.

Ps 119:31 I cling to Your testimonies; / O Jehovah, do not put me to shame.

Ps 119:32 I run the way of Your commandments, / For You enlarge my heart.

Ps 119:33 Teach me, O Jehovah, the way of Your statutes; / And I will keep it to the end.

Ps 119:34 Give me understanding, and I will observe Your law; / Indeed I will keep it with all my heart.

Ps 119:35 Cause me to go on the path of Your commandments, / For in it I delight.

Ps 119:36 Incline my heart to Your testimonies / And not to unjust gain.

Ps 119:37 Turn my eyes from beholding vanity, / And enliven me in Your ways.

Ps 119:38 Confirm to Your servant Your word, / Which is for fearing You.

Ps 119:39 Turn away my reproach, which I fear; / For Your ordinances are good.

Ps 119:40 Behold, I have longed after Your precepts; / Enliven me in Your righteousness.

Ps 119:41 May Your lovingkindness also come to me, O Jehovah, / Your salvation according to Your word.

Ps 119:42 Thus I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, / For I trust in Your word.

Ps 119:43 And do not take the word of truth utterly from my mouth, / For I have hoped in Your ordinances.

Ps 119:44 Thus I will keep Your law continually, / Forever and ever.

Ps 119:45 And I will walk at liberty, / For I have sought Your precepts.

Ps 119:46 I will also speak of Your testimonies before kings / And not be ashamed.

Ps 119:47 And I will take delight in Your commandments, / Which I love.

Ps 119:48 And I will lift up my hand to Your commandments, which I love; / And I will muse upon Your statutes.

Ps 119:49 Remember the word to Your servant / In which You have made me hope.

Ps 119:50 This is my comfort in my affliction, / For Your word has enlivened me.

Ps 119:51 The proud have derided me greatly; / I have not swerved from Your law.

Ps 119:52 I have remembered Your ordinances from long ago, / O Jehovah, and have comforted myself.

Ps 119:53 Raging indignation seizes me because of the wicked, / Who forsake Your law.

Ps 119:54 Your statutes have become my songs of praise / In the house of my pilgrimage.

Ps 119:55 I have remembered Your name / In the night, O Jehovah, / And have kept Your law.

Ps 119:56 This has been mine, / That I have kept Your precepts.

Ps 119:57 Jehovah is my portion; / I have promised to keep Your words.

Ps 119:58 I entreated Your favor with my whole heart; / Be gracious to me according to Your word.

Ps 119:59 I considered my ways / And turned my feet toward Your testimonies.

Ps 119:60 I hurried and did not delay / To keep Your commandments.

Ps 119:61 The cords of the wicked surround me, / But I have not forgotten Your law.

Ps 119:62 At midnight I rise up to give thanks to You / Because of Your righteous ordinances.

Ps 119:63 I am a companion to all who fear You / And to those who keep Your precepts.

Ps 119:64 Your lovingkindness, O Jehovah, fills the earth; / Teach me Your statutes.

Ps 119:65 You have dealt well with Your servant, / O Jehovah, according to Your word.

Ps 119:66 Teach me proper discernment and knowledge, / For I believe in Your commandments.

Ps 119:67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; / But now I keep Your word.

Ps 119:68 You are good and One who does good; / Teach me Your statutes.

Ps 119:69 The proud have plastered lies against me; / With my whole heart I will keep Your precepts.

Ps 119:70 Their heart is heavy as with fat; / But I delight in Your law.

Ps 119:71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted, / That I might learn Your statutes.

Ps 119:72 The law of Your mouth is better to me / Than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

Ps 119:73 Your hands have made me and fashioned me; / Give me understanding that I may learn Your commandments.

Ps 119:74 Those who fear You will see me and rejoice, / For I have hoped in Your word.

Ps 119:75 I know, O Jehovah, that Your judgments are righteous / And that in faithfulness You afflicted me.

Ps 119:76 Let Your lovingkindness, I beseech You, be my comfort, / According to Your word to Your servant.

Ps 119:77 Let Your compassions come to me, and I will live; / For Your law is my delight.

Ps 119:78 Let the proud be put to shame, for they have subverted my cause with a lie; / But I will muse upon Your precepts.

Ps 119:79 Let those who fear You turn to me, / And they will know Your testimonies.

Ps 119:80 May my heart be perfect in Your statutes, / That I may not be put to shame.

Ps 119:81 My soul faints while longing for Your salvation; / I hope in Your word.

Ps 119:82 My eyes faint while longing for Your word, / As I say, When will You comfort me?

Ps 119:83 For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke; / But I do not forget Your statutes.

Ps 119:84 How many are the days of Your servant? / When will You execute judgment upon my persecutors?

Ps 119:85 The proud have dug pits for me, / Those who are not according to Your law.

Ps 119:86 All Your commandments are faithful; / They persecute me falsely; help me.

Ps 119:87 They have almost consumed me upon the earth; / But I have not forsaken Your precepts.

Ps 119:88 Enliven me according to Your lovingkindness, / And I will keep the testimony of Your mouth.

Ps 119:89 Forever, O Jehovah, / Does Your word stand firm in heaven.

Ps 119:90 Your faithfulness is from generation to generation; / You established the earth, and it abides.

Ps 119:91 They abide to this day according to Your ordinances, / For all things are Your servants.

Ps 119:92 Unless Your law had been my delight, / I would have perished in my affliction.

Ps 119:93 I will never forget Your precepts, / For by them You have enlivened me.

Ps 119:94 I am Yours; save me, / For I have sought Your precepts.

Ps 119:95 The wicked have waited for me in order to destroy me, / But I consider Your testimonies.

Ps 119:96 I have seen an end to all perfection, / But Your commandment is all-expansive.

Ps 119:97 Oh, how I love Your law! / All day long it is my musing.

Ps 119:98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, / For they are always with me.

Ps 119:99 I have more insight than all my teachers, / For Your testimonies are my musing.

Ps 119:100 I understand more than the aged, / For I have kept Your precepts.

Ps 119:101 I have withheld my feet from every evil way, / That I might keep Your word.

Ps 119:102 I have not turned aside from Your ordinances, / For You have taught me.

Ps 119:103 How sweet are Your words to my taste! / Sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Ps 119:104 Through Your precepts I gain understanding; / Therefore I hate every false way.

Ps 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet / And a light to my path.

Ps 119:106 I have sworn and will confirm it, / That I will keep Your righteous ordinances.

Ps 119:107 I have been greatly afflicted; / O Jehovah, enliven me according to Your word.

Ps 119:108 Accept, I pray, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Jehovah; / And teach me Your ordinances.

Ps 119:109 My soul is continually in my hand, / But I do not forget Your law.

Ps 119:110 The wicked have laid a trap for me, / But I do not stray from Your precepts.

Ps 119:111 Your testimonies are my heritage forever, / For they are the gladness of my heart.

Ps 119:112 I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes / Forever, to the end.

Ps 119:113 I hate those who are double-minded, / But I love Your law.

Ps 119:114 You are my hiding place and my shield; / In Your word do I hope.

Ps 119:115 Depart from me, you evildoers, / That I may keep the commandments of my God.

Ps 119:116 Uphold me according to Your word that I may live, / And do not let me be ashamed of my hope.

Ps 119:117 Hold me up that I may be safe, / And I will regard Your statutes continually.

Ps 119:118 You spurn all those who stray from Your statutes, / For their deceitfulness is vain.

Ps 119:119 You do away with all the wicked ones of the earth like dross; / Therefore I love Your testimonies.

Ps 119:120 My flesh trembles for fear of You, / And I am afraid of Your judgments.

Ps 119:121 I have performed judgment and righteousness; / Do not leave me to my oppressors.

Ps 119:122 Guarantee Your servant’s well-being; / Do not let the proud oppress me.

Ps 119:123 My eyes faint while longing for Your salvation / And for Your righteous word.

Ps 119:124 Deal with Your servant according to Your lovingkindness, / And teach me Your statutes.

Ps 119:125 I am Your servant; give me understanding, / That I may know Your testimonies.

Ps 119:126 It is time for Jehovah to act, / For they have broken Your law.

Ps 119:127 Therefore I love Your commandments / More than gold, indeed, more than fine gold;

Ps 119:128 Therefore I esteem all Your precepts concerning all things to be right, / And I hate every false way.

Ps 119:129 Your testimonies are wonderful; / Therefore my soul keeps them.

Ps 119:130 The opening of Your words gives light, / Imparting understanding to the simple.

Ps 119:131 I opened my mouth wide and panted, / For I longed for Your commandments.

Ps 119:132 Turn to me, and be gracious to me, / As is Your custom with those who love Your name.

Ps 119:133 Establish my footsteps in Your word, / And do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.

Ps 119:134 Redeem me from man’s oppression, / That I may keep Your precepts.

Ps 119:135 Cause Your face to shine on Your servant, / And teach me Your statutes.

Ps 119:136 My eyes shed streams of water, / Because men do not keep Your law.

Ps 119:137 You are righteous, O Jehovah; / And Your judgments are upright.

Ps 119:138 You have commanded Your testimonies in righteousness / And great faithfulness.

Ps 119:139 My zeal has consumed me, / For my adversaries have forgotten Your words.

Ps 119:140 Your word is very pure, / And Your servant loves it.

Ps 119:141 I am small and despised, / But I do not forget Your precepts.

Ps 119:142 Your righteousness is an eternal righteousness, / And Your law is truth.

Ps 119:143 Distress and anguish have come upon me, / But Your commandments are my delight.

Ps 119:144 Your testimonies are righteous forever; / Give me understanding, and I will live.

Ps 119:145 I called with my whole heart; answer me, O Jehovah. / I will keep Your statutes.

Ps 119:146 I called upon You; save me, / And I will observe Your testimonies.

Ps 119:147 I anticipated the dawn and cried out; / I hoped in Your words.

Ps 119:148 My eyes anticipated the night watches, / That I might muse upon Your word.

Ps 119:149 Hear my voice according to Your lovingkindness; / O Jehovah, according to Your ordinances enliven me.

Ps 119:150 Those who persecute me with evil intent draw near; / They are far from Your law.

Ps 119:151 You are near, O Jehovah; / And all Your commandments are truth.

Ps 119:152 Of old I have known from Your testimonies / That You have founded them forever.

Ps 119:153 Look at my affliction, and deliver me; / For I have not forgotten Your law.

Ps 119:154 Plead my case, and redeem me; / Enliven me according to Your word.

Ps 119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked, / For they do not seek Your statutes.

Ps 119:156 Great are Your compassions, O Jehovah; / Enliven me according to Your ordinances.

Ps 119:157 Many are my persecutors and my adversaries, / But I have not swerved from Your testimonies.

Ps 119:158 I saw the treacherous and loathed them, / Because they did not keep Your word.

Ps 119:159 See how I have loved Your precepts; / O Jehovah, enliven me according to Your lovingkindness.

Ps 119:160 The sum of Your word is truth, / And all Your righteous ordinances are forever.

Ps 119:161 Princes have persecuted me without cause, / But my heart stands in awe of Your words.

Ps 119:162 I rejoice at Your word, / Like one who finds great spoil.

Ps 119:163 I hate and abhor falsehood, / But I love Your law.

Ps 119:164 Seven times a day I praise You / For Your righteous ordinances.

Ps 119:165 There is great peace for those who love Your law, / And there is no occasion of stumbling for them.

Ps 119:166 I have hoped for Your salvation, O Jehovah; / And I have done Your commandments.

Ps 119:167 My soul has kept Your testimonies, / And I love them very much.

Ps 119:168 I have kept Your precepts and Your testimonies, / For all my ways are before You.

Ps 119:169 Let my cry come before You, O Jehovah; / Give me understanding according to Your word.

Ps 119:170 Let my supplication come before You; / Deliver me according to Your word.

Ps 119:171 Let my lips pour forth praise, / For You teach me Your statutes.

Ps 119:172 Let my tongue sing of Your word, / For all Your commandments are righteousness.

Ps 119:173 Let Your hand be ready to help me, / For I have chosen Your precepts.

Ps 119:174 I have longed for Your salvation, O Jehovah, / And Your law is my delight.

Ps 119:175 Let my soul live, and it will praise You; / And let Your ordinances help me.

Ps 119:176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, / For I have not forgotten Your commandments.

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