Psalms 119
1 Alleluia. Blessed are the blameless in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
Happy are they who are upright in their way, 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 observe his ordinances, And seek him with their whole heart;
3 For they that work iniquity have not walked in his ways.
Who also do no iniquity, But walk in his ways!
4 You have commanded [us] diligently to keep your precepts.
Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
5 O that my ways were directed to keep your ordinances.
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all your commandments.
Then shall I not be put to shame, When I have respect to all thy commandments.
7 I will give you thanks with uprightness of heart, when I have learnt the judgements of your righteousness.
I will praise thee in uprightness of heart, When I shall have learned thy righteous laws.
8 I will keep your ordinances: O forsake me not greatly.
I will keep thy statutes; Do not utterly forsake me!
9 Wherewith shall a young man direct his way? by keeping your words.
How shall a young man keep his way pure? By taking heed to it according to thy word.
10 With my whole heart have I diligently sought you: cast me not away from your commandments.
With my whole heart have I sought thee; O let me not wander from thy commandments!
11 I have hidden your oracles in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Thy word have I hid in my heart, That I might not sin against thee.
12 Blessed are you, O Lord: teach me your ordinances.
Blessed be thou, O LORD! O teach me thy statutes!
13 With my lips have I declared all the judgements of your mouth.
With my lips do I declare All the precepts of thy mouth.
14 I have delighted in the way of your testimonies, [as much] as in all riches.
In the way of thine ordinances I rejoice As much as in all riches.
15 I will meditate on your commandments, and consider your ways.
I meditate on thy precepts, And have respect unto thy ways.
16 I will meditate on your ordinances: I will not forget your words.
I delight myself in thy statutes; I do not forget thy word.
17 Render a recompense to your servant: [so] shall I live, and keep your words.
Deal kindly with thy servant, that I may live, And have regard to thy word!
18 Unveil you mine eyes, and I shall perceive wondrous things of your law.
Open thou mine 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.
I am a stranger in the earth; O hide not thy precepts from me!
20 My soul has longed exceedingly for your judgements at all times.
My soul breaketh within me, On account of longing for thy judgments at all times.
21 You have rebuked the proud: cursed are they that turn aside from your commandments.
Thou rebukest the proud, the accursed, Who wander from thy commandments.
22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have sought out your testimonies.
Remove from me reproach and contempt, For I have kept thine ordinances!
23 For princes sat and spoke against me: but your servant was meditating on your ordinances.
Princes sit and speak against me, But thy servant meditateth on thy statutes.
24 For your testimonies are my (meditation) and your ordinances are my counsellors.
Thine ordinances are my delight; Yea, they are my counsellors.
25 My soul has cleaved to the ground; quicken you me according to your word.
My soul cleaveth to the dust; O revive me, according to thy word!
26 I declared my ways, and you did hear me: teach me your ordinances.
I have declared my ways, and thou hast heard me; Teach me thy statutes!
27 Instruct me in the way of your ordinances; and I will meditate on your wondrous works.
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts! So will I meditate upon thy wonders.
28 My soul has slumbered for sorrow; strengthen you me with your words.
My soul weepeth for trouble; O lift me up according to thy promise!
29 Remove from me the way of iniquity; and be merciful to me by your law.
Remove from me the way of falsehood, And graciously grant me thy law!
30 I have chosen the way of truth; and have not forgotten your judgements.
I have chosen the way of truth, And set thy statutes before me.
31 I have cleaved to your testimonies, O Lord; put me not to shame.
I cleave to thine ordinances; O LORD! let me not be put to shame!
32 I ran the way of your commandments, when you did enlarge my heart.
I will run in the way of thy commandments, When thou shalt enlarge my heart.
33 Teach me, O Lord, the way of your ordinances, and I will seek it out continually.
Teach me, O LORD! the way of thy statutes, That I may keep it to the end!
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; That I may observe it with my whole heart!
35 Guide me in the path of your commandments; for I have delighted in it.
Cause me to tread in the path of thy commandments, For in it I have my delight.
36 Incline mine heart to your testimonies, and not to covetousness.
Incline my heart to thine ordinances, And not to the love of gain!
37 Turn away mine eyes that I may not behold vanity: quicken you me in your way.
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in thy law!
38 Confirm your oracle to your servant, that he may fear you.
Fulfill to thy servant thy promise, Which thou hast made to him who feareth thee!
39 Take away my reproach which I have feared: for your judgements are good.
Turn away the reproach which I fear; For thy judgments are good.
40 Behold, I have desired your commandments: quicken me in your righteousness.
Behold, I have longed for thy precepts; O quicken thou me in thy righteousness!
41 And let your mercy come upon me, O Lord; [even] your salvation, according to your word.
Let thy mercies come to me, O LORD! And thy help according to thy promise!
42 And [so] I shall render an answer to them that reproach me: for I have trusted in your words.
So shall I be able to answer him that reproacheth me; For I trust in thy promise.
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.
O take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth! For I trust in thy judgments.
So shall I keep thy law continually, For ever and ever.
45 I walked also at large: for I sought out your commandments.
I shall walk in a wide path; For I seek thy precepts.
46 And I spoke of your testimonies before kings, and was not ashamed.
I will speak of thine ordinances before kings, And will not be ashamed.
47 And I meditated on your commandments, which I loved exceedingly.
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.
I will lift up my hands to thy precepts, which I love; I will meditate on thy statutes.
49 Remember your words to your servant, wherein you have made me hope.
Remember thy promise to thy servant, Because thou hast caused me to hope!
50 This has comforted me in mine affliction: for your oracle has quickened me.
This is my comfort in my affliction; For thy promise reviveth me.
51 The proud have transgressed exceedingly; but I swerved not from your law.
The proud have had me greatly in derision; Yet have I not swerved from thy law.
52 I remembered your judgements of old, O Lord; and was comforted.
I remember thy judgments of old, O LORD! And I comfort myself.
53 Despair took hold upon me, because of the sinners who forsake your law.
Indignation burneth within me, On account of the wicked who forsake thy law.
54 Your ordinances were my songs in the place of my sojourning.
Thy statutes have been my song In the house of my pilgrimage.
55 I remembered your name, O Lord, in the night, and kept your law.
In the night, O LORD! I think of thy name, And keep thy law!
56 This I had, because I diligently sought your ordinances.
This have I as my own, That I keep thy precepts.
57 You are my portion, O Lord: I said that I would keep your law.
Thou art my portion, O LORD! I have resolved that I will keep thy precepts.
58 I implored your favour with my whole heart: have mercy upon me according to your word.
I have sought thy favor with my whole heart; Be gracious unto me according to thy promise!
59 I thought on your ways, and turned my feet to your testimonies.
I think on my ways, And turn my feet to thy statutes;
60 I prepared myself, (and was not terrified, ) to keep your commandments.
I make haste, and delay not, To keep thy commandments.
61 The snares of sinners entangled me: but I forgot not your law.
The snares of the wicked surround me; Yet do I not forget thy law.
62 At midnight I arose, to give thanks to you for the judgements of your righteousness.
At midnight I rise to give thanks to thee On account of thy righteous judgments.
63 I am a companion of all them that fear you, and of them that keep your commandments.
I am the companion of all who fear thee, And who obey thy precepts.
64 O Lord, the earth is full of your mercy: teach me your ordinances.
The earth, O LORD! is full of thy goodness; O teach me thy statutes!
65 You have wrought kindly with your servant, o Lord, according to your word.
Thou dost bless thy servant, O LORD! According to thy promise!
66 Teach me kindness, and instruction, and knowledge: for I have believed your commandments.
Teach me sound judgment and knowledge! For I have faith in thy commandments.
67 Before I was afflicted, I transgressed; therefore have I kept your word.
Before I was afflicted, I went astray; But now I keep thy word.
68 Good are you, O Lord; therefore in your goodness teach me your ordinances.
Thou art good and doest good; O 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 proud forge lies against me, But I keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
70 Their heart has been curdled like milk; but I have meditated on your law.
Their heart is senseless like fat; But I delight in thy law.
71 [It is] good for me that you have afflicted me; that I might learn your ordinances.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn thy statutes.
72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
The law of thy mouth is better to me Than thousands of gold and silver.
73 Your hands have made me, and fashioned me: instruct me, that I may learn your commandments.
Thy hands have made and fashioned 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.
They who fear thee shall see me and rejoice, Because I trust in 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 judgments are right, 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.
O let thy loving-kindness be my comfort, According to thy promise to thy servant!
77 Let your compassions come to me, that I may live: for your law is my (meditation)
Let thy tender mercies come to 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.
May the proud be put to shame, who wrong me without cause! But I will meditate on thy precepts.
79 Let those that fear you, and those that know your testimonies, turn to me.
Let those who fear thee turn unto me, And they that know thine ordinances!
80 Let mine heart be blameless in your ordinances, that I may not be ashamed.
May my heart be perfect in thy statutes, That I may not be put to shame!
81 My soul faints for your salvation: I have hoped in your words.
My soul fainteth for thy salvation; In thy promise do I trust.
82 Mine eyes failed [in waiting] for your word, saying, When will you comfort me?
Mine eyes fail with looking for thy promise; When. say I, wilt thou comfort me?
83 For I am become as a bottle in the frost: [yet] I have not forgotten your ordinances.
Yea, 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 judgment upon my persecutors?
85 Transgressors told me [idle tales]; but not according to your law, O Lord.
The proud have digged pits for me; They who do not regard thy law.
86 All your commandments are truth; they persecuted me unjustly; help you me.
All thy commandments are faithful; They persecute me without cause; help thou me!
87 They nearly made an end of me in the earth; but I forsook not your commandments.
They had almost consumed me from the earth; But I forsook not thy precepts.
88 Quicken me according to your mercy; so shall I keep the testimonies of your mouth.
Quicken me according to thy loving-kindness, That I may keep the law of thy mouth!
89 Your word, O Lord, abides in heaven for ever.
Thy word, O LORD! abideth for ever, Being established like the heavens;
90 Your truth [endures] to all generations; you have founded the earth, and it abides.
Thy faithfulness endureth to all generations. Thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
91 The day continues by your arrangement; for all things are your servants.
They continue to this day according to their ordinances; For they are all subject to thee.
92 Were it not that your law is my (meditation) then I should have perished in mine affliction.
Had not thy law been my delight, I should have perished in my affliction.
93 I will never forget your ordinances; for with them you have quickened me.
I will never forget thy precepts; For by them thou revivest me.
94 I am your, save me; for I have sought out your ordinances.
I am thine, help me! For I seek thy precepts.
95 Sinners laid wait for me to destroy me; [but] I understood your testimonies.
The wicked lie in wait to destroy me; But I will have regard to thine ordinances.
96 have seen an end of all perfection; [but] your commandment is very broad.
I have seen an end of all perfection; But thy law is exceeding broad.
97 How I have loved your law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the day.
O how I love thy law! It is my daily (meditation)
98 You have made me wiser than mine enemies [in] your commandment; for it is mine for ever.
Thou hast made me wiser than my enemies by thy precepts; For they are ever before me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers; for your testimonies are my medication.
I have more understanding than all my teachers; For thine ordinances are my (meditation)
100 I understand more that the aged; because I have sought out your commandments.
I have more wisdom than the ancients, Because I keep thy precepts.
101 I have kept back my feet from every evil way, that I might keep your words.
I have restrained my feet from every evil way, That I might keep thy word.
102 I have not declined from your judgements; for you have instructed me.
I depart not from thy statutes, For thou teachest me!
103 How sweet are your oracles to my throat! more so than honey to my mouth!
How sweet are thy words to my taste; Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 I gain understanding by your commandments: therefore I have hated every way of unrighteousness.
From thy precepts I learn wisdom; Therefore do I hate every false way.
105 Your law is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths.
Thy word is a lamp to my feet, And a light to my path.
106 I have sworn and determined to keep the judgements of your righteousness.
I have sworn, and I will perform it, That I will keep thy righteous statutes.
107 I have been very greatly afflicted, O Lord: quicken me, according to your word.
I am exceedingly afflicted; Revive me, O LORD! according to thy word!
108 Accept, I pray you, O Lord, the free will offerings of my mouth, and teach me your judgements.
Accept, O LORD! the free-will offering of my mouth, And teach me thy statutes!
109 My soul is continually in your hands; and I have not forgotten your law.
My life is continually in my hand; Yet do I not forget thy law.
110 Sinners spread a snare for me; but I erred not from your commandments.
The wicked lay snares for me, Yet do I not go astray from thy precepts.
111 I have inherited your testimonies for ever; for they are the joy of my heart.
I have made thine ordinances my possession for ever; 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, —even to the end.
113 I have hated transgressors; but I have loved your law.
I hate impious men, And thy law I do love.
114 You are my helper and my supporter; I have hoped in your words.
Thou art my hiding-place and my shield; In thy word I put my trust!
115 Depart from me, you evil-doers; for I will search out the commandments of my God.
Depart from me, ye evil-doers! For I will keep the commandments of my 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 ashamed of my hope!
117 Help me, and I shall be saved; and I will meditate in your ordinances continually.
Do thou hold me up, and I shall be safe, And I will have respect to thy statutes continually!
118 You have brought to nothing all that depart from your ordinances; for their inward thought is unrighteous.
Thou castest off all who depart from thy laws; For their deceit is vain.
119 I have reckoned all the sinners of the earth as transgressors; therefore have I loved your testimonies.
Thou throwest away all the wicked of the earth, like dross; Therefore I love thine ordinances.
120 Penetrate my flesh with your fear; for I am afraid of your judgements.
My flesh trembleth through fear of thee, And I am afraid of thy judgments.
121 I have done judgement and justice; deliver me not up to them that injure me.
I have done justice and equity; O leave me not to mine oppressors.
122 Receive your servant for good: let not the proud accuse me falsely.
Be surety for thy servant for good; Let not the proud oppress me!
123 Mine eyes have failed for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.
Mine eyes fail with looking for thy help, 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 mercy, And teach me thy statutes!
125 I am your servant; instruct me, and I shall know your testimonies.
I am thy servant; give me understanding, That I may know thine ordinances!
126 [It is] time for the Lord to work: they have utterly broken your law.
It is time for thee, O LORD! to act; For men have made void thy law.
127 Therefore have I loved your commandments more than gold, or the topaz.
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; Yea, above fine gold.
128 Therefore I directed myself [according] to all your commandments: I have hated every unjust way.
Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; I hate every false way.
129 Your testimonies are wonderful: therefore my soul has sought them out.
Wonderful are thine ordinances; Therefore do I observe them.
130 The manifestation of your words will enlighten, and instruct the simple.
The communication of thy precepts giveth light; It giveth understanding to the simple.
131 I opened my mouth, and drew breath: for I earnestly longed after your commandments.
I open my mouth and pant: For I long for thy commandments.
132 Look upon me and have mercy upon me, after the manner of them that love your name.
Look thou upon me, and be gracious to me, As is just to those who love thy name!
133 Order my steps according to your word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Establish my footsteps in thy word, And let no iniquity have dominion over me!
134 Deliver me from the false accusation of men: so will I keep your commandments.
Redeem me from the oppression of men, So will I keep thy precepts!
135 Cause your face to shine upon your servant: and teach me your ordinances.
Let thy face shine on thy servant, And teach me thy statutes!
136 Mine eyes have been bathed in streams of water, because I kept not your law.
Rivers of water run down mine eyes, Because men keep not thy law.
137 Righteous are you, O Lord, and upright are your judgements.
Righteous art thou, O LORD! And just are thy judgments!
138 You has commanded righteousness and perfect truth, [as] your testimonies.
Just are the ordinances which thou hast ordained, And altogether righteous.
139 Your zeal has quite wasted me: because mine enemies have forgotten your words.
My zeal consumeth me, Because my enemies forget thy word.
140 Your word [has been] very fully tried; and your servant loves it.
Thy word is very pure, Therefore thy servant loveth it.
141 I am young and despised: [yet] I have not forgotten your ordinances.
Of mean condition am I, and despised; Yet do I not forget thy precepts.
142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is truth.
Thy righteousness is everlasting righteousness, And thy law is truth.
143 Afflictions and distresses found me: [but] your commandments [were] my (meditation)
Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me, But thy laws are my delight.
144 Your testimonies [are] an everlasting righteousness: instruct me, and I shall live.
The justice of thine ordinances is everlasting; Give me understanding, and I shall live!
145 I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord: I will search out your ordinances.
I cry to thee with my whole heart; Hear me, O LORD! that I may keep thy statutes.
146 I cried to you; save me, and I will keep your testimonies.
I cry unto thee; save me, And I will observe thine ordinances.
147 I arose before the dawn, and cried: I hoped in your words.
I come before the dawn with my prayer; I trust in thy promise!
148 Mine eyes prevented the dawn, that I might meditate on your oracles.
My eyes anticipate the night-watches, That I may meditate upon thy promise.
149 Hear my voice, O Lord, according to your mercy; quicken me according to your judgement.
Hear my voice according to thy loving-kindness; O LORD! revive me according to thy mercy!
150 They have drawn near who persecuted me unlawfully; and they are far removed from your law.
Near are they whose aim is mischief; They are far from thy law;
151 You are near, O Lord; and all your ways are truth.
Yet thou art near, O LORD! And all thy commandments are truth!
152 I have known of old concerning your testimonies, that you have founded them for ever.
Long have I known concerning thine ordinances, That thou hast founded them for ever.
153 Look upon mine affliction, and rescue me; for I have not forgotten your law.
Look upon my affliction, and deliver me! For I do not forget thy law.
154 Plead my cause, and ransom me: quicken me because of your word.
Maintain my cause, and redeem me; Revive me according to thy promise!
155 Salvation is far from sinners: for they have not searched out your ordinances.
Salvation is far from the wicked, Because they seek not thy statutes.
156 Your mercies, O Lord, are many: quicken me according to your judgement.
Great is thy compassion, O LORD! Revive thou me according to thine equity!
157 Many are they that persecute me and oppress me: [but] I have not declined from your testimonies.
Many are my persecutors and my enemies, Yet do I not depart from thine ordinances.
158 I saw men acting foolishly, and I pined away; for they kept not your oracles.
I behold the transgressors, and am grieved Because they regard not thy word.
159 Behold, I have loved your commandments, O Lord: quicken me in your mercy.
Behold, how I love thy precepts! O LORD! revive me according to thy loving-kindness!
160 The beginning of your words is truth; and all the judgements of your righteousness [endure] for ever.
The whole of thy word is truth, And all thy righteous judgments endure for ever.
161 Princes persecuted me without a cause, but my heart feared because of your words.
Princes have persecuted me without cause; But my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
162 I will exult because of your oracles, as one that finds much spoil.
I rejoice in thy word, As one that hath found great spoil.
163 I hate and abhor unrighteousness; but I love your law.
I hate and abhor lying, And thy law do I love.
164 Seven times in a day have I praised you because of the judgements of your righteousness.
Seven times a day do I praise thee On account of thy righteous judgments.
165 Great peace have they that love your law: and there is no stumbling block to them.
Great peace have they who love thy law, And no evil shall befall them.
166 I waited for your salvation, O Lord, and have loved your commandments.
O LORD! I wait for thy salvation, And keep thy commandments!
167 My soul has kept your testimonies, and loved them exceedingly.
My soul observeth thine ordinances, And loveth them exceedingly.
168 I have kept your commandments and your testimonies; for all my ways are before you, O Lord.
I keep thy precepts and thine ordinances; For all my ways are before thee.
169 Let my supplication come near before you, o Lord; instruct me according to your oracle.
Let my prayer come near before thee, O LORD! According to thy promise, give me understanding!
170 Let my petition come in before you, O Lord; deliver me according to your oracle.
Let my supplication come before thee; O deliver me according to thy promise!
171 Let my lips utter a hymn, when you shall have taught me your ordinances.
My lips shall pour forth praise; For thou teachest me thy statutes.
172 Let my tongue utter your oracles; for all your commandments are righteous.
My tongue shall sing of thy word; For all thy commandments are right.
173 Let your hand be [prompt] to save me; for I have chosen your commandments.
Let thy hand be my help; For I have chosen thy precepts!
174 I have longed after your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my (meditation)
I long for thy salvation, O LORD! And thy law is my delight!
175 My soul shall live, and shall praise you; and your judgements shall help me.
Let me live, and I will praise thee; Let thy judgments help me!
176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant; for I have not forgotten your commandments.
I wander like a lost sheep; seek thy servant, For I do not forget thy commandments!
