Psalm 119:1-176 LSV

[1] [ALEPH] O the blessedness of those perfect in the way, || They are walking in the Law of YHWH, [2] O the blessedness of those keeping His testimonies, || They seek Him with the whole heart. [3] Indeed, they have not done iniquity, || They have walked in His ways. [4] You have commanded us to diligently keep Your precepts, [5] O that my ways were prepared to keep Your statutes, [6] Then I am not ashamed || In my looking to all Your commands. [7] I confess You with uprightness of heart, || In my learning the judgments of Your righteousness. [8] I keep Your statutes, do not utterly leave me! [9] [BETH] With what does a young man purify his path? To observe—according to Your word. [10] I have sought You with all my heart, || Do not let me err from Your commands. [11] I have hid Your saying in my heart, || That I do not sin before You. [12] Blessed [are] You, O YHWH, teach me Your statutes. [13] With my lips I have recounted || All the judgments of Your mouth. [14] I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies, || As over all wealth. [15] I meditate on Your precepts, || And I attentively behold Your paths. [16] I delight myself in Your statutes, || I do not forget Your word. [17] [GIMEL] Confer benefits on Your servant, || I live, and I keep Your word. [18] Uncover my eyes, and I behold wonders out of Your law. [19] I [am] a sojourner on earth, || Do not hide Your commands from me. [20] My soul has broken for desire || To Your judgments at all times. [21] You have rebuked the cursed proud, || Who are erring from Your commands. [22] Remove reproach and contempt from me, || For I have kept Your testimonies. [23] Princes also sat—they spoke against me, || Your servant meditates on Your statutes, [24] Your testimonies [are] also my delight, || The men of my counsel! [25] [DALETH] My soul has cleaved to the dust, || Quicken me according to Your word. [26] I have recounted my ways, || And You answer me, teach me Your statutes, [27] Cause me to understand the way of Your precepts, || And I meditate on Your wonders. [28] My soul has dropped from affliction, || Establish me according to Your word. [29] Turn aside the way of falsehood from me || And favor me with Your law. [30] I have chosen the way of faithfulness, || I have compared Your judgments, [31] I have adhered to Your testimonies, || O YHWH, do not put me to shame. [32] I run the way of Your commands, || For You enlarge my heart! [33] [HE] Show me, O YHWH, the way of Your statutes, || And I keep it—[to] the end. [34] Cause me to understand, and I keep Your law, || And observe it with the whole heart. [35] Cause me to tread in the path of Your commands, || For I have delighted in it. [36] Incline my heart to Your testimonies, || And not to dishonest gain. [37] Remove my eyes from seeing vanity, || Quicken me in Your way. [38] Establish Your saying to Your servant, || That [is] concerning Your fear. [39] Remove my reproach that I have feared, || For Your judgments [are] good. [40] Behold, I have longed for Your precepts, || Quicken me in Your righteousness, [41] [WAW] And Your kindness meets me, O YHWH, || Your salvation according to Your saying. [42] And I answer him who is reproaching me a word, || For I have trusted in Your word. [43] And You do not utterly take away || The word of truth from my mouth, || Because I have hoped for Your judgment. [44] And I keep Your law continually, || For all time and forever. [45] And I habitually walk in a broad place, || For I have sought Your precepts. [46] And I speak of Your testimonies before kings, || And I am not ashamed. [47] And I delight myself in Your commands, || That I have loved, [48] And I lift up my hands to Your commands, || That I have loved, || And I meditate on Your statutes! [49] [ZAYIN] Remember the word to Your servant, || On which You have caused me to hope. [50] This [is] my comfort in my affliction, || That Your saying has quickened me. [51] The proud have utterly scorned me, || I have not turned aside from Your law. [52] I remembered Your judgments of old, O YHWH, || And I comfort myself. [53] Horror has seized me, || Because of the wicked forsaking Your law. [54] Your statutes have been songs to me, || In the house of my sojournings. [55] I have remembered Your Name in the night, O YHWH, || And I keep Your law. [56] This has been to me, || That I have kept Your precepts! [57] [HETH] YHWH [is] my portion; I have said I would keep Your words, [58] I appeased Your face with the whole heart, || Favor me according to Your saying. [59] I have reckoned my ways, || And turn back my feet to Your testimonies. [60] I have made haste, || And did not delay, to keep Your commands. [61] Cords of the wicked have surrounded me, || I have not forgotten Your law. [62] At midnight I rise to give thanks to You, || For the judgments of Your righteousness. [63] I [am] a companion to all who fear You, || And to those keeping Your precepts. [64] Of Your kindness, O YHWH, the earth is full, || Teach me Your statutes! [65] [TETH] You did good with Your servant, O YHWH, || According to Your word. [66] Teach me the goodness of reason and knowledge, || For I have believed in Your commands. [67] Before I am afflicted, I am erring, || And now I have kept Your saying. [68] You [are] good, and doing good, || Teach me Your statutes. [69] The proud have forged falsehood against me, || I keep Your precepts with the whole heart. [70] Their heart has been thick as fat, || I have delighted 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! [73] [YOD] Your hands made me and establish me, || Cause me to understand, and I learn Your commands. [74] Those fearing You see me and rejoice, || Because I have hoped for Your word. [75] I have known, O YHWH, || That Your judgments [are] righteous, || And [in] faithfulness You have afflicted me. [76] Please let Your kindness be to comfort me, || According to Your saying to Your servant. [77] Your mercies meet me, and I live, || For Your law [is] my delight. [78] The proud are ashamed, || For [with] falsehood they dealt perversely with me. I meditate on Your precepts. [79] Those fearing You turn back to me, || And those knowing Your testimonies. [80] My heart is perfect in Your statutes, || So that I am not ashamed. [81] [KAPH] My soul has been consumed for Your salvation, || I have hoped for Your word. [82] My eyes have been consumed for Your word, || Saying, “When does it comfort me?” [83] For I have been as a bottle in smoke, || I have not forgotten Your statutes. [84] How many [are] the days of Your servant? When do You execute judgment || Against my pursuers? [85] The proud have dug pits for me, || That [are] not according to Your law. [86] All Your commands [are] faithfulness, || They have pursued me [with] falsehood, || Help me. [87] They have almost consumed me on earth, || And I have not forsaken Your precepts. [88] Quicken me according to Your kindness, || And I keep the Testimony of Your mouth! [89] [LAMED] For all time, O YHWH, Your word is set up in the heavens. [90] Your faithfulness from generation to generation, || You established earth, and it stands. [91] According to Your ordinances || They have stood this day, for the whole—Your servants. [92] Unless Your law [were] my delights, || Then had I perished in my affliction. [93] I do not forget Your precepts for all time, || For You have quickened me by them. [94] I [am] Yours, save me, for I have sought Your precepts. [95] Your wicked waited for me to destroy me, || I understand Your testimonies. [96] I have seen an end of all perfection, || Your command [is] exceedingly broad! [97] [MEM] O how I have loved Your law! It [is] my meditation all the day. [98] Your command makes me wiser than my enemies, || For it [is] before me for all time. [99] I have acted wisely above all my teachers. For Your testimonies [are] my meditation. [100] Above elderly—I understand more, || For I have kept Your precepts. [101] I restrained my feet from every evil path, || So that I keep Your word. [102] I did not turn aside from Your judgments, || For You have directed me. [103] How sweet Your saying has been to my palate, || Above honey to my mouth. [104] I have understanding from Your precepts, || Therefore I have hated every false path! [105] [NUN] Your word [is] a lamp to my foot, || And a light to my path. [106] I have sworn, and I confirm, || To keep the judgments of Your righteousness. [107] I have been afflicted very much, || O YHWH, quicken me, according to Your word. [108] Please accept [the] free-will offerings of my mouth, O YHWH, || And teach me Your judgments. [109] My soul [is] in my hand continually, || And I have not forgotten Your law. [110] The wicked have laid a snare for me, || And I did not wander from your precepts. [111] I have inherited Your testimonies for all time, || For they [are] the joy of my heart. [112] I have inclined my heart || To do Your statutes, for all time—[to] the end! [113] [SAMEKH] I have hated doubting ones, || And I have loved Your law. [114] You [are] my hiding place and my shield, || I have hoped for Your word. [115] Turn aside from me, you evildoers, || And I keep the commands of my God. [116] Sustain me according to Your saying, || And I live, and You do not put me to shame because of my hope. [117] Support me, and I am saved, || And I look on Your statutes continually. [118] You have trodden down || All going astray from Your statutes, || For their deceit [is] falsehood. [119] Dross! You have caused to cease || All the wicked of the earth; Therefore I have loved Your testimonies. [120] My flesh has trembled from Your fear, || And I have been afraid from Your judgments! [121] [AYIN] I have done judgment and righteousness, || Do not leave me to my oppressors. [122] Make Your servant sure for good, || Do not let the proud oppress me. [123] My eyes have been consumed for Your salvation. And for the saying of Your righteousness. [124] Do with Your servant according to Your kindness. And teach me Your statutes. [125] I [am] Your servant—cause me to understand, || And I know Your testimonies. [126] Time for YHWH to work! They have made Your law void. [127] Therefore I have loved Your commands || Above gold—even fine gold. [128] Therefore all my appointments I have declared wholly right, || I have hated every path of falsehood! [129] [PE] Your testimonies [are] wonderful, || Therefore my soul has kept them. [130] The opening of Your words enlightens, || Instructing the simple. [131] I have opened my mouth, indeed, I pant, || For I have longed for Your commands. [132] Look to me, and favor me, || As customary to those loving Your Name. [133] Establish my steps by Your saying, || And any iniquity does not rule over me. [134] Ransom me from the oppression of man, || And I observe Your precepts, [135] Cause Your face to shine on Your servant, || And teach me Your statutes. [136] Streams of waters have come down my eyes, || Because they have not kept Your law! [137] [TSADE] You [are] righteous, O YHWH, || And Your judgments [are] upright. [138] You have appointed Your testimonies, || Righteous and exceedingly faithful, [139] My zeal has cut me off, || For my adversaries forgot Your words. [140] Your saying [is] tried exceedingly, || And Your servant has loved it. [141] I [am] small, and despised, || I have not forgotten Your precepts. [142] Your righteousness [is] righteousness for all time, || And Your law [is] truth. [143] Adversity and distress have found me, || Your commands [are] my delights. [144] The righteousness of Your testimonies || [Is] to cause me to understand, and I live! [145] [QOF] I have called with the whole heart, || Answer me, O YHWH, I keep Your statutes, [146] I have called You, save me, || And I keep Your testimonies. [147] I have gone forward in the dawn, and I cry, || I have hoped for Your word. [148] My eyes have gone before the watches, || To meditate on Your saying. [149] Hear my voice, according to Your kindness, || YHWH, quicken me according to Your judgment. [150] My wicked pursuers have been near, || They have been far off from Your law. [151] You [are] near, O YHWH, || And all Your commands [are] truth. [152] I have known Your testimonies of old, || That You have founded them for all time! [153] [RESH] See my affliction, and deliver me, || For I have not forgotten Your law. [154] Plead my plea, and redeem me, || Quicken me according to Your saying. [155] Salvation [is] far from the wicked, || For they have not sought Your statutes. [156] Your mercies [are] many, O YHWH, || Quicken me according to Your judgments. [157] My pursuers and adversaries are many, || I have not turned aside from Your testimonies. [158] I have seen treacherous ones, || And grieve myself, || Because they have not kept Your saying. [159] See, for I have loved Your precepts, || YHWH, quicken me according to Your kindness. [160] The sum of Your word [is] truth, || And every judgment of Your righteousness [is] for all time! [161] [SHIN] Princes have pursued me without cause, || And my heart was afraid because of Your words. [162] I rejoice concerning Your saying, || As one finding abundant spoil. [163] I have hated falsehood, indeed I detest [it], || I have loved Your law. [164] Seven [times] in a day I have praised You, || Because of the judgments of Your righteousness. [165] Those loving Your law have abundant peace, || And they have no stumbling-block. [166] I have waited for Your salvation, O YHWH, || And I have done Your commands. [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! [169] [TAW] My loud cry comes near before You, O YHWH; Cause me to understand according to Your word. [170] My supplication comes in before You, || Deliver me according to Your saying. [171] My lips utter praise, || For You teach me Your statutes. [172] My tongue sings of Your saying, || For all Your commands [are] righteous. [173] Your hand is for a help to me, || For I have chosen Your commands. [174] I have longed for Your salvation, O YHWH, || And Your law [is] my delight. [175] My soul lives, and it praises You, || And Your judgments help me. [176] I wandered as a lost sheep, [so] seek Your servant, || For I have not forgotten Your precepts!