Psalms 119

1✦Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

2✦Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

3✦They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.

4✦Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.

5✦O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

6✦Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

7✦I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.

8✦I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.

9✦Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

10✦With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

11✦Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

12✦Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.

13✦With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.

14✦I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.

15✦I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

16✦I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

17✦Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.

18✦Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

19✦I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

20✦My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.

21✦Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.

22✦Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.

23✦Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

24✦Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.

25✦My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.

26✦I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.

27✦Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.

28✦My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.

29✦Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.

30✦I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.

31✦I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.

32✦I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

33✦Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.

34✦Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

35✦Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

36✦Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

37✦Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

38✦Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.

39✦Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.

40✦Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

41✦Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.

42✦So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.

43✦And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.

44✦So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.

45✦And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.

46✦I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.

47✦And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

48✦My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

49✦Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.

50✦This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.

51✦The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

52✦I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.

53✦Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

54✦Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

55✦I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.

56✦This I had, because I kept thy precepts.

57✦Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.

58✦I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.

59✦I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

60✦I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.

61✦The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.

62✦At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.

63✦I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.

64✦The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.

65✦Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.

66✦Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.

67✦Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

68✦Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.

69✦The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

70✦Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.

71✦It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

72✦The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.

73✦Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

74✦They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.

75✦I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

76✦Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.

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

78✦Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

79✦Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.

80✦Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.

81✦My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

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

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

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

85✦The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.

86✦All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.

87✦They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.

88✦Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

89✦For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.

90✦Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.

91✦They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.

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

93✦I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.

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

95✦The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.

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

97✦O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

98✦Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.

99✦I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

100✦I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

101✦I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.

102✦I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.

103✦How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

104✦Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

105✦Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

106✦I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.

107✦I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.

108✦Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.

109✦My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.

110✦The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

111✦Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

112✦I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.

113✦I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.

114✦Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.

115✦Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.

116✦Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.

117✦Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.

118✦Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

119✦Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

120✦My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

121✦I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.

122✦Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

123✦Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.

124✦Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.

125✦I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.

126✦It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.

127✦Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.

128✦Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.

129✦Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.

130✦The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

131✦I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.

132✦Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.

133✦Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

134✦Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.

135✦Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.

136✦Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

137✦Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.

138✦Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.

139✦My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.

140✦Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.

141✦I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.

142✦Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

143✦Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.

144✦The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.

145✦I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.

146✦I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.

147✦I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.

148✦Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

149✦Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.

150✦They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.

151✦Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.

152✦Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.

153✦Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.

154✦Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.

155✦Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

156✦Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.

157✦Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.

158✦I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.

159✦Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.

160✦Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

161✦Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

162✦I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.

163✦I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.

164✦Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.

165✦Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

166✦LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.

167✦My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.

168✦I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.

169✦Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.

170✦Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.

171✦My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.

172✦My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.

173✦Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

174✦I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.

175✦Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.

176✦I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.