Psalms 119
1 Alleluia. Blessed are the blameless in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
ALEPH. Happy are they whose way is perfect, who walk in the law of the Lord.
2 Blessed are they that search out his testimonies: they will diligently seek him with the whole heart.
Happy are they who keep his testimonies, that seek him with all their heart.
3 For they that work iniquity have not walked in his ways.
They also commit no injustice; in his ways do they walk.
4 You have commanded [us] diligently to keep your precepts.
Thou thyself hast commanded us thy precepts, that we might keep [them] diligently.
5 O that my ways were directed to keep your ordinances.
Oh that my ways were firmly directed to observe thy statutes!
6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all your commandments.
Then would I not be made ashamed, while I look at all thy commandments.
7 I will give you thanks with uprightness of heart, when I have learnt the judgements of your righteousness.
I will thank thee with uprightness of heart, when I learn thy righteous ordinances.
8 I will keep your ordinances: O forsake me not greatly.
Thy statutes will I observe: oh forsake me not too greatly.
9 Wherewith shall a young man direct his way? by keeping your words.
BETH. Wherewithal shall a youth keep his way pure? by guarding it according to thy word.
10 With my whole heart have I diligently sought you: cast me not away from your commandments.
With all my heart have I sought thee: oh let me not wander astray from thy commandments.
11 I have hidden your oracles in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
In my heart have I treasured up thy saying, in order that I may not sin against thee.
12 Blessed are you, O Lord: teach me your ordinances.
Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy statutes.
13 With my lips have I declared all the judgements of your mouth.
With my lips have I related all the ordinances of thy mouth.
14 I have delighted in the way of your testimonies, [as much] as in all riches.
On the way of thy testimonies have I been glad, as over all wealth.
15 I will meditate on your commandments, and consider your ways.
On thy precepts will I meditate, and direct my look unto thy paths.
16 I will meditate on your ordinances: I will not forget your words.
In thy statutes will I seek my delight: I will not forget thy word.
17 Render a recompense to your servant: [so] shall I live, and keep your words.
GIMEL. Deal bountifully with thy servant: let me live, that I may observe thy word.
18 Unveil you mine eyes, and I shall perceive wondrous things of your law.
Open thou my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not your commandments from me.
A stranger am I on the earth: hide not from me thy commandments.
20 My soul has longed exceedingly for your judgements at all times.
My soul is broken from longing for thy ordinances at all times.
21 You have rebuked the proud: cursed are they that turn aside from your commandments.
Thou hast rebuked the accursed proud, who go erringly astray from thy commandments.
22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have sought out your testimonies.
Roll away from me reproach and contempt; for thy testimonies have I kept.
23 For princes sat and spoke against me: but your servant was meditating on your ordinances.
Although even princes should sit and speak against me, thy servant would still meditate on thy statutes.
24 For your testimonies are my (meditation) and your ordinances are my counsellors.
Also thy testimonies are my delight, my counsellors.
25 My soul has cleaved to the ground; quicken you me according to your word.
DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: revive thou me according to thy word.
26 I declared my ways, and you did hear me: teach me your ordinances.
My ways do I relate [to thee], and thou answerest me: teach me thy statutes.
27 Instruct me in the way of your ordinances; and I will meditate on your wondrous works.
Cause me to understand the way of thy precepts, that I may meditate on thy wonders.
28 My soul has slumbered for sorrow; strengthen you me with your words.
My soul droppeth away from grief: sustain me according to thy word.
29 Remove from me the way of iniquity; and be merciful to me by your law.
The way of falsehood do thou remove from me, and grant me graciously thy law.
30 I have chosen the way of truth; and have not forgotten your judgements.
The way of truth have I chosen: thy ordinances have I set [before me].
31 I have cleaved to your testimonies, O Lord; put me not to shame.
I have adhered unto thy testimonies: O Lord, put me not to shame.
32 I ran the way of your commandments, when you did enlarge my heart.
The way of thy commandments will I run; for thou wilt enlarge my heart.
33 Teach me, O Lord, the way of your ordinances, and I will seek it out continually.
HE. Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes, and I shall keep it in all its windings.
34 Instruct me, and I will search out your law, and will keep it with my whole heart.
Give me understanding, that I may keep thy law, and I will observe it with all [my] heart.
35 Guide me in the path of your commandments; for I have delighted in it.
Guide me on the path of thy commandments; for therein do I find my delight.
36 Incline mine heart to your testimonies, and not to covetousness.
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to desire for gain.
37 Turn away mine eyes that I may not behold vanity: quicken you me in your way.
Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity: on thy way do thou give me life.
38 Confirm your oracle to your servant, that he may fear you.
Fulfill unto thy servant thy promise for those who are devoted to thy fear.
39 Take away my reproach which I have feared: for your judgements are good.
Cause to pass away my disgrace of which I have dread; for thy ordinances are good.
40 Behold, I have desired your commandments: quicken me in your righteousness.
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: through thy righteousness do thou give my life.
41 And let your mercy come upon me, O Lord; [even] your salvation, according to your word.
VAV. And let thy kindness come unto me, O Lord, thy salvation, according to thy promise.
42 And [so] I shall render an answer to them that reproach me: for I have trusted in your words.
Then shall I have a word to answer the one 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 your judgements. So shall I keep your law continually, for ever and ever.
And snatch not the word of truth out of my mouth too greatly; for I wait for thy ordinances.
So shall I observe thy law continually for ever and ever.
45 I walked also at large: for I sought out your commandments.
And I will walk in an open space; for thy precepts have I sought.
46 And I spoke of your testimonies before kings, and was not ashamed.
And I will speak of thy testimonies before kings, and will not be ashamed.
47 And I meditated on your commandments, which I loved exceedingly.
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I love.
48 And I lifted up my hands to your commandments which I loved; and I meditated in your ordinances.
And so will I lift up my hands unto thy commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on thy statutes.
49 Remember your words to your servant, wherein you have made me hope.
ZAYIN. Remember thy word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to wait.
50 This has comforted me in mine affliction: for your oracle has quickened me.
This is my comfort in my affliction, that thy promise hath revived me.
51 The proud have transgressed exceedingly; but I swerved not from your law.
The presumptuous have held me too greatly in derision: yet have I not departed away from thy law.
52 I remembered your judgements of old, O Lord; and was comforted.
I remembered thy decrees [which were] from olden times, O Lord, and thus comforted myself.
53 Despair took hold upon me, because of the sinners who forsake your law.
Horror seized on me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
54 Your ordinances were my songs in the place of my sojourning.
Songs have thy statutes been unto me in the house of my pilgrimage.
55 I remembered your name, O Lord, in the night, and kept your law.
I remembered in the night thy name, O Lord, and observed thy law.
56 This I had, because I diligently sought your ordinances.
This came to pass unto me, because I had kept thy precepts.
57 You are my portion, O Lord: I said that I would keep your law.
CHETH. My portion is the Lord, have I said, that I might observe thy words.
58 I implored your favour with my whole heart: have mercy upon me according to your word.
I make entreaty before thee with all my heart: be gracious unto me according to thy promise.
59 I thought on your ways, and turned my feet to your testimonies.
I have thought over my ways, and made my feet return unto thy testimonies.
60 I prepared myself, (and was not terrified, ) to keep your commandments.
I hastened, and delayed not to observe thy commandments.
61 The snares of sinners entangled me: but I forgot not your law.
Companies of wicked men have surrounded me; but I have not forgotten thy law.
62 At midnight I arose, to give thanks to you for the judgements of your righteousness.
At midnights do I constantly rise to give thanks unto thee, because of thy righteous decrees.
63 I am a companion of all them that fear you, and of them that keep your commandments.
An associate am I unto all that fear thee, and unto those that keep thy precepts.
64 O Lord, the earth is full of your mercy: teach me your ordinances.
Of thy kindness, O Lord, is the earth full: teach me thy statutes.
65 You have wrought kindly with your servant, o Lord, according to your word.
TETH. Thou hast shown goodness on thy servant, O Lord, according to thy word.
66 Teach me kindness, and instruction, and knowledge: for I have believed your commandments.
The best of discernment and knowledge do thou teach me; for in thy commandments do I believe.
67 Before I was afflicted, I transgressed; therefore have I kept your word.
Before I was afflicted I was in error; but now I observe thy saying.
68 Good are you, O Lord; therefore in your goodness teach me your ordinances.
Thou art good, and doing good: teach me thy statutes.
69 The injustice of the proud has been multiplied against me: but I will search out your commandments with all my heart.
The presumptuous have invented falsehoods against me; but I will with all my heart indeed keep thy precepts.
70 Their heart has been curdled like milk; but I have meditated on your law.
Gross as fat is their heart; but I take truly delight in thy law.
71 [It is] good for me that you have afflicted me; that I might learn your ordinances.
It is well for me that I have been afflicted, in order that I might learn thy statutes.
72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
Better is unto me the law of thy mouth than thousands of gold and silver.
73 Your hands have made me, and fashioned me: instruct me, that I may learn your commandments.
YOD. Thy hands have made me and established me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
74 They that fear you will see me and rejoice: for I have hoped in your words.
Those that fear thee will see me and be rejoiced; because I have waited for thy word.
75 I know, O Lord, that your judgements are righteousness, and [that] you in truthfulness have afflicted me.
I know, O Lord, that thy decrees are righteous, and that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.
76 Let, I pray you, your mercy be to comfort me, according to your word to your servant.
Let, I pray thee, thy kindness come to comfort me, according to thy promise unto thy servant.
77 Let your compassions come to me, that I may live: for your law is my (meditation)
Let thy mercies come unto me, that I may live; for thy law is my delight.
78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they transgressed against me unjustly: but I will meditate in your commandments.
Let the presumptuous be made ashamed; because they have without a cause dealt perversely with me; but I will indeed meditate on thy precepts.
79 Let those that fear you, and those that know your testimonies, turn to me.
Let those that fear thee return unto me, and those that know thy testimonies.
80 Let mine heart be blameless in your ordinances, that I may not be ashamed.
Let my heart be entire in thy statutes, in order that I may not be put to shame.
81 My soul faints for your salvation: I have hoped in your words.
CAPH. My soul ardently desireth for thy salvation: for thy word do I wait.
82 Mine eyes failed [in waiting] for your word, saying, When will you comfort me?
My eyes look eagerly for thy promise, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
83 For I am become as a bottle in the frost: [yet] I have not forgotten your ordinances.
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke: [yet] do I not forget thy statutes.
84 How many are the days of your servant? when will you execute judgement for me on them that persecute me?
How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute justice on my persecutors?
85 Transgressors told me [idle tales]; but not according to your law, O Lord.
The presumptuous have dug pits for me, which is not in accordance with thy law.
86 All your commandments are truth; they persecuted me unjustly; help you me.
All thy commandments are founded on truth: without cause they persecute me; help thou me.
87 They nearly made an end of me in the earth; but I forsook not your commandments.
But little was wanting that they had consumed me upon earth; but I have truly not forsaken thy precepts.
88 Quicken me according to your mercy; so shall I keep the testimonies of your mouth.
According to thy kindness give me life, that I may observe the testimony of thy mouth.
89 Your word, O Lord, abides in heaven for ever.
LAMED. To eternity, O Lord, standeth firm thy word with the heavens.
90 Your truth [endures] to all generations; you have founded the earth, and it abides.
Unto all generations endureth thy faithfulness: thou hast established the earth, and she standeth.
91 The day continues by your arrangement; for all things are your servants.
According to thy ordinances they exist this day: for all are thy servants.
92 Were it not that your law is my (meditation) then I should have perished in mine affliction.
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should long since have been lost in my affliction.
93 I will never forget your ordinances; for with them you have quickened me.
Never will I forget thy precepts; for with them thou hast kept me alive.
94 I am your, save me; for I have sought out your ordinances.
Thine am I, save me; for thy precepts have I sought.
95 Sinners laid wait for me to destroy me; [but] I understood your testimonies.
Wicked men have waited for me to destroy me; [but] I will reflect on thy testimonies.
96 have seen an end of all perfection; [but] your commandment is very broad.
Of all perfection have I seen the end; [but] thy commandment is exceedingly extended.
97 How I have loved your law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the day.
MEM. Oh how do I love thy law! all the day is it my (meditation)
98 You have made me wiser than mine enemies [in] your commandment; for it is mine for ever.
Wiser than my enemy doth thy commandment make me; for it is perpetually with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers; for your testimonies are my medication.
Above all my teachers have I obtained intelligence; for thy testimonies are my (meditation)
100 I understand more that the aged; because I have sought out your commandments.
More than the elders do I possess understanding; because thy precepts do I keep.
101 I have kept back my feet from every evil way, that I might keep your words.
From every evil path have I withholden my feet, in order that I might observe thy word.
102 I have not declined from your judgements; for you have instructed me.
From thy ordinances have I not departed; for thou hast instructed me.
103 How sweet are your oracles to my throat! more so than honey to my mouth!
How much sweeter are to my palate thy sayings than honey to my mouth!
104 I gain understanding by your commandments: therefore I have hated every way of unrighteousness.
Through thy precepts shall I obtain understanding: therefore do I hate every path of falsehood.
105 Your law is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths.
NUN. A lamp unto my feet is thy word, and a light unto my path.
106 I have sworn and determined to keep the judgements of your righteousness.
I have sworn, and I will perform it, to observe thy righteous ordinances.
107 I have been very greatly afflicted, O Lord: quicken me, according to your word.
I am afflicted exceedingly much: O Lord, revive me, according to thy word.
108 Accept, I pray you, O Lord, the free will offerings of my mouth, and teach me your judgements.
Receive in favor the freewill-offerings of my mouth, I beseech thee, O Lord, and teach me thy ordinances.
109 My soul is continually in your hands; and I have not forgotten your law.
My life is in my hand continually: yet thy law do I not forget.
110 Sinners spread a snare for me; but I erred not from your commandments.
The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet have I not erred from thy precepts.
111 I have inherited your testimonies for ever; for they are the joy of my heart.
I have taken thy testimonies as a heritage to eternity; for they are the joy of my heart.
112 I have inclined my heart to perform your ordinances for ever, in return [for your mercies].
I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes always, in all their ways.
113 I have hated transgressors; but I have loved your law.
SAMECH. Those of divided thoughts I hate; but thy law do I love.
114 You are my helper and my supporter; I have hoped in your words.
My shelter and my shield art thou: for thy word do I wait.
115 Depart from me, you evil-doers; for I will search out the commandments of my God.
Depart from me, ye evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of God.
116 Uphold me according to your word, and quicken me; and make me not ashamed of my expectation.
Uphold me according to thy promise, that I may live, and let me not be made ashamed of my hope.
117 Help me, and I shall be saved; and I will meditate in your ordinances continually.
Support me that I may be placed in safety, and I will direct my regard unto thy statutes continually.
118 You have brought to nothing all that depart from your ordinances; for their inward thought is unrighteous.
Thou hast trodden down all that erringly stray from thy statutes; for falsehood is their deceit.
119 I have reckoned all the sinners of the earth as transgressors; therefore have I loved your testimonies.
Like dross dost thou put away all the wicked of the earth: therefore do I love thy testimonies.
120 Penetrate my flesh with your fear; for I am afraid of your judgements.
My flesh trembleth shudderingly from dread of thee, and of thy decrees am I afraid.
121 I have done judgement and justice; deliver me not up to them that injure me.
'AYIN. I have executed justice and righteousness: leave me not to those who oppress me.
122 Receive your servant for good: let not the proud accuse me falsely.
Protect thy servant for good: let not the presumptuous oppress me.
123 Mine eyes have failed for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.
My eyes look eagerly for thy salvation, and for thy righteous promise.
124 Deal with your servant according to your mercy, and teach me your ordinances.
Deal with thy servant according to thy kindness, and thy statutes do thou teach me.
125 I am your servant; instruct me, and I shall know your testimonies.
I am thy servant: give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.
126 [It is] time for the Lord to work: they have utterly broken your law.
It is time to act for the Lord: they have broken thy law.
127 Therefore have I loved your commandments more than gold, or the topaz.
Therefore do I love thy commandments more than gold, and more than fine gold.
128 Therefore I directed myself [according] to all your commandments: I have hated every unjust way.
Therefore do I esteem all thy precepts in all things as right: every path of falsehood do I hate.
129 Your testimonies are wonderful: therefore my soul has sought them out.
PE. Wonderful are thy testimonies: therefore doth my soul keep them.
130 The manifestation of your words will enlighten, and instruct the simple.
The opening of thy words giveth light, it giveth understanding unto the simple.
131 I opened my mouth, and drew breath: for I earnestly longed after your commandments.
I opened my mouth, and panted for breath; because for thy commandments did I long.
132 Look upon me and have mercy upon me, after the manner of them that love your name.
Turn thou unto me, and be gracious unto me, as is thy wont unto those that love thy name.
133 Order my steps according to your word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
My steps establish thou through thy promise, and suffer not any wrong to have dominion over me.
134 Deliver me from the false accusation of men: so will I keep your commandments.
Deliver me from the oppression of man, and I will observe thy precepts.
135 Cause your face to shine upon your servant: and teach me your ordinances.
Let thy face shine upon thy servant, and teach me thy statutes.
136 Mine eyes have been bathed in streams of water, because I kept not your law.
Streams of water have run down my eyes; because they had not observed thy law.
137 Righteous are you, O Lord, and upright are your judgements.
TZADDE. Righteous art thou, O Lord, and upright are thy decrees.
138 You has commanded righteousness and perfect truth, [as] your testimonies.
Thou hast commanded thy testimonies, as righteous and faithful exceedingly.
139 Your zeal has quite wasted me: because mine enemies have forgotten your words.
My zeal destroyeth me; because my assailants have forgotten thy words.
140 Your word [has been] very fully tried; and your servant loves it.
Thy promise is greatly refined, and thy servant loveth it.
141 I am young and despised: [yet] I have not forgotten your ordinances.
I am little and despised: yet thy precepts have I not forgotten.
142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is truth.
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
143 Afflictions and distresses found me: [but] your commandments [were] my (meditation)
Distress and trouble have overtaken me: [yet] are thy commandments my delights.
144 Your testimonies [are] an everlasting righteousness: instruct me, and I shall live.
Righteous are thy testimonies for everlasting: give me understanding, that I may live.
145 I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord: I will search out your ordinances.
KOPH. I have called with all my heart: answer me, O Lord: thy statutes will I keep.
146 I cried to you; save me, and I will keep your testimonies.
I have called on thee, save me, and I will observe thy testimonies.
147 I arose before the dawn, and cried: I hoped in your words.
I come before thee in the dawn of morning, and cry: for thy word do I wait.
148 Mine eyes prevented the dawn, that I might meditate on your oracles.
My eyes are awake before the night-watches, that I may meditate in thy saying.
149 Hear my voice, O Lord, according to your mercy; quicken me according to your judgement.
Hear my voice according to thy kindness: O Lord, according to thy decree do thou grant me life.
150 They have drawn near who persecuted me unlawfully; and they are far removed from your law.
They that pursue mischievous devices draw nigh: from thy law are they far.
151 You are near, O Lord; and all your ways are truth.
Near art thou, O Lord; and all thy commandments are the truth.
152 I have known of old concerning your testimonies, that you have founded them for ever.
Of old already I knew of thy testimonies; because for eternity hast thou founded them.
153 Look upon mine affliction, and rescue me; for I have not forgotten your law.
RESH. Look on my affliction, and release me; for thy law have I not forgotten.
154 Plead my cause, and ransom me: quicken me because of your word.
Plead my cause, and deliver me: according to thy promise do thou revive me.
155 Salvation is far from sinners: for they have not searched out your ordinances.
Far from the wicked is salvation; because thy statutes have they not sought for.
156 Your mercies, O Lord, are many: quicken me according to your judgement.
Thy mercies are abundant, O Lord; according to thy decrees do thou revive me.
157 Many are they that persecute me and oppress me: [but] I have not declined from your testimonies.
Many are my persecutors and my assailants: yet from thy testimonies do I not turn away.
158 I saw men acting foolishly, and I pined away; for they kept not your oracles.
I beheld the treacherous, and felt disgust; because they observed not thy saying.
159 Behold, I have loved your commandments, O Lord: quicken me in your mercy.
Behold that I love thy precepts: O Lord, according to thy kindness do thou revive me.
160 The beginning of your words is truth; and all the judgements of your righteousness [endure] for ever.
The summit of thy word is truth: and the whole of thy righteous judgment endureth for ever.
161 Princes persecuted me without a cause, but my heart feared because of your words.
SHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but of thy word standeth my heart in dread.
162 I will exult because of your oracles, as one that finds much spoil.
I am rejoiced over thy promise, as one that findeth great spoil.
163 I hate and abhor unrighteousness; but I love your law.
Falsehood I hate and abhor: but thy law do I love.
164 Seven times in a day have I praised you because of the judgements of your righteousness.
Seven times in the day do I praise thee because of thy righteous decrees.
165 Great peace have they that love your law: and there is no stumbling block to them.
Abundant peace have they who love thy law; and thee is nothing that causeth them to stumble.
166 I waited for your salvation, O Lord, and have loved your commandments.
I have hoped for thy salvation, O Lord, and thy commandments have I fulfilled.
167 My soul has kept your testimonies, and loved them exceedingly.
My soul hath observed thy testimonies, and I love them exceedingly.
168 I have kept your commandments and your testimonies; for all my ways are before you, O Lord.
I have observed thy precepts and thy testimonies; because all my ways are before thee.
169 Let my supplication come near before you, o Lord; instruct me according to your oracle.
TAV. Let my entreaty come near before thee, O Lord: according to thy word grant me understanding.
170 Let my petition come in before you, O Lord; deliver me according to your oracle.
Let my supplication come before thee: according to thy promise do thou deliver me.
171 Let my lips utter a hymn, when you shall have taught me your ordinances.
My lips shall utter praise; because thou wilt teach me thy statutes.
172 Let my tongue utter your oracles; for all your commandments are righteous.
My tongue shall speak loudly of thy promise; for all thy commandments are righteous.
173 Let your hand be [prompt] to save me; for I have chosen your commandments.
Let thy hand be [ready] to help me; for thy precepts have I chosen.
174 I have longed after your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my (meditation)
I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my delights.
175 My soul shall live, and shall praise you; and your judgements shall help me.
Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee: and let thy decrees help me.
176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant; for I have not forgotten your commandments.
I have gone erringly astray like a lost sheep: seek thy servant; for thy commandments have I not forgotten.
