Psalms 119
1 Alleluia. Blessed are the immaculate in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
2 Blessed are those who examine his testimonies. They seek him with their whole heart.
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
3 For those who work iniquity have not walked in his ways.
They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
4 You have ordered your commandments to be kept most diligently.
Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
5 I wish that my ways may be directed so as to keep your justifications.
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
6 Then I will not be confounded, when I will look into all your commandments.
Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all thy commandments.
7 I will confess to you with honesty of heart. In this way, I have learned the judgments of your justice.
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
8 I will keep your justifications. Do not utterly abandon me.
I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
9 By what does an adolescent correct his way? By keeping to your words.
How shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed to it according to thy word.
10 With my whole heart, I have sought you. Do not let me be driven 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 eloquence in my heart, so that I may 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 justifications.
Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
13 With my lips, I have pronounced all the judgments of your mouth.
With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
14 I have been delighted in the way of your testimonies, as if in all riches.
I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
15 I will be trained in your commandments, and I will consider your ways.
I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect to thy ways.
16 I will meditate on your justifications. I will not forget your words.
I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
17 Repay your servant, revive me; and I will keep your words.
Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
18 Reveal to my eyes, and I will consider the wonders of your law.
Open thou my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
19 I am a sojourner on the earth. Do not hide your commandments from me.
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
20 My soul has longed to desire your justifications at all times.
My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath to thy judgments at all times.
21 You have rebuked the arrogant. Those who decline from your commandments are accursed.
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, who do err from thy commandments.
22 Take me away from disgrace and contempt, for I have sought your testimonies.
Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
23 For even the leaders sat and spoke against me. But your servant has been trained in your justifications.
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
24 For your testimonies are also my (meditation) and your justifications are my counsel.
Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
25 My soul has adhered to the pavement. Revive me according to your word.
My soul cleaveth to the dust: revive thou me according to thy word.
26 I have declared my ways, and you have heeded me. Teach me your justifications.
I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.
27 Instruct me in the way of your justifications, and I will be trained in your wonders.
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.
28 My soul has slumbered because of weariness. Confirm me in your words.
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according to thy word.
29 Remove the way of iniquity from me, and have mercy on me by your law.
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
30 I have chosen the way of truth. I have not forgotten your judgments.
I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
31 I have adhered to your testimonies, O Lord. Do not be willing to confound me.
I have cleaved to thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.
32 I have run by way of your commandments, when you enlarged my heart.
I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
33 O Lord, place the law before me, the way of your justifications, and I will always inquire into it.
Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it to the end.
34 Give me understanding, and I will examine your law. And I will keep it with my whole heart.
Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
35 Lead me according to the path of your commandments, for I have desired this.
Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for in that do I delight.
36 Bend my heart with your testimonies, and not with avarice.
Incline my heart to thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
37 Turn my eyes away, lest they see what is vain. Revive me in your way.
Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; and revive thou me in thy way.
38 Station your eloquence with your servant, along with your fear.
Establish thy word to thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.
39 Cut off my disgrace, which I have taken up, for your judgments are delightful.
Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.
40 Behold, I have longed for your commandments. Revive me in your fairness.
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: revive me in thy righteousness.
41 And let your mercy overwhelm me, O Lord: your salvation according to your eloquence.
Let thy mercies come also to me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.
42 And I will respond to those who reproach me by word, for I have hoped in your words.
So shall I have that to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.
43 And do not utterly take away the word of truth from my mouth. For in your judgments, I have hoped beyond hope.
And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.
44 And I will always keep your law, in this age and forever and ever.
So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
45 And I have wandered far and wide, because I was seeking your commandments.
And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
46 And I spoke of your testimonies in the sight of kings, and I was not confounded.
I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
47 And I meditated on your commandments, which I loved.
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
48 And I lifted up my hands to your commandments, which I loved. And I was trained in your justifications.
My hands also will I lift to thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
49 Be mindful of your word to your servant, by which you have given me hope.
Remember the word to thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.
50 This has consoled me in my humiliation, for your word has revived me.
This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath revived me.
51 The arrogant act altogether iniquitously, but I have not turned aside from your law.
The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet I have not declined from thy law.
52 I called to mind your judgments of antiquity, O Lord, and I was consoled.
I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.
53 Faintness has taken hold of me, because of the sinners, those who abandon your law.
Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
54 Your justifications were the subject of my worthy singing, in the place of my pilgrimage.
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
55 During the night, I remembered your name, O Lord, and I kept your law.
I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
56 This has happened to me because I sought your justifications.
This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
57 O Lord, my portion, I have said that I would keep your law.
Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.
58 I have beseeched your face with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.
I entreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful to me according to thy word.
59 I have considered my ways, and I have turned my feet toward your testimonies.
I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies.
60 I have been prepared, and I have not been disturbed, so that I may keep your commandments.
I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
61 The ropes of the impious have encircled me, and I have not forgotten your law.
The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
62 I arose in the middle of the night to confess to you, over the judgments of your justification.
At midnight I will rise to give thanks to thee because of thy righteous judgments.
63 I am a partaker with all those who fear you and who keep your commandments.
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 your mercy. Teach me your justifications.
The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.
65 You have done well with your servant, O Lord, according to your word.
Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according to thy word.
66 Teach me goodness and discipline and knowledge, for I have trusted your commandments.
Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
67 Before I was humbled, I committed offenses; because of this, I have kept to your word.
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
68 You are good, so in your goodness teach me your justifications.
Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
69 The iniquity of the arrogant has been multiplied over me. Yet I will examine your commandments with all my heart.
The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
70 Their heart has been curdled like milk. Truly, I have meditated on your law.
Their heart is covered with fat; but I delight in thy law.
71 It is good for me that you humbled me, so that I may learn your justifications.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
72 The law of your mouth is good for me, beyond thousands of gold and silver pieces.
The law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
73 Your hands have created me and formed me. Give me understanding, and I will learn your commandments.
Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
74 Those who fear you will see me, and they will rejoice. For I have greatly hoped in your words.
They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.
75 I know, O Lord, that your judgments are fairness. And in your truth, you have humbled me.
I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
76 Let it be your mercy that consoles me, according to your eloquence to your servant.
Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word to thy servant.
77 Let your compassion draw near to me, and I will 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 arrogant be confounded, for unjustly they have done iniquity to me. But I will be trained in your commandments.
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
79 Let those who fear you turn to me, along with those who know your testimonies.
Let those that fear thee turn to me, and those that have known thy testimonies.
80 Let my heart be immaculate in your justifications, so that I may not be confounded.
Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I may not be ashamed.
81 My soul has faltered in your salvation, yet in your word, I have hoped beyond hope.
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
82 My eyes have failed in your eloquence, saying, “When will you console me?”
My eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
83 For I have become like a wineskin in the frost. I have not forgotten your justifications.
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet I do not forget thy statutes.
84 How many are the days of your servant? When will you bring judgment against those who persecute me?
How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
85 The iniquitous have spoken fables to me. But these are unlike your law.
The proud have dug pits for me, which are not according to thy law.
86 All your commandments are truth. They have been persecuting me unjustly: assist me.
All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
87 They have nearly consumed me on earth. Yet I have not forsaken your commandments.
They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.
88 Revive me according to your mercy. And I will keep the testimonies of your mouth.
Revive me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
89 O Lord, your word remains firm in heaven, for all eternity.
For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
90 Your truth is from generation to generation. You have founded the earth, and it remains firm.
Thy faithfulness is to all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
91 By your ordinance, the day perseveres. For all things are in service to you.
They continue this day according to thy ordinances: for all are thy servants.
92 If your law had not been my (meditation) then perhaps I would have perished in my humiliation.
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in my affliction.
93 I will not forget your justifications, for eternity. For by them, you have enlivened me.
I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast revived me.
94 I am yours. Accomplish my salvation. For I have inquired into your justifications.
I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.
95 The sinners have waited for me, in order to destroy me. I have understood your testimonies.
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
96 I have seen the end of the consummation of all things. Your commandment is exceedingly broad.
I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.
97 How have I loved your law, O Lord? It is my meditation all day long.
O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
98 By your commandment, you have made me able to see far, beyond my enemies. For it is with me for eternity.
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than my enemies: for they are ever with me.
99 I have understood beyond all my teachers. For your testimonies are my (meditation)
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my (meditation)
100 I have understood beyond the elders. For I have searched your commandments.
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
101 I have prohibited my feet from every evil way, so that I may 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 judgments, because you have stationed a law for me.
I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
103 How sweet is your eloquence to my palate, more so than honey to my mouth!
How sweet are thy words to my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 I obtained understanding by your commandments. Because of this, I have hated every way of iniquity.
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
105 Your word 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 it, and so I am determined to keep the judgments of your justice.
I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
107 I have been altogether humbled, Lord. Revive me according to your word.
I am afflicted very much: revive me, O LORD, according to thy word.
108 Make the willing offerings of my mouth well pleasing, Lord, and teach me your judgments.
Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.
109 My soul is always in my hands, and I have not forgotten your law.
My soul is continually in my hand: yet I do not forget thy law.
110 Sinners have set a snare for me, yet I have not strayed from your commandments.
The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
111 I have acquired your testimonies as an inheritance unto eternity, because they are the exultation of my heart.
Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
112 I have inclined my heart to do your justifications for eternity, as a recompense.
I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes always, even to the end.
113 I have hated the iniquitous, and I have loved your law.
I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
114 You are my helper and my supporter. And in your word, I have greatly hoped.
Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
115 Turn away from me, you malignant ones. And I will examine the commandments of my God.
Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
116 Uphold me according to your eloquence, and I will live. And let me not be confounded in my expectation.
Uphold me according to thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
117 Help me, and I will be saved. And I will meditate always on your justifications.
Support me, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect to thy statutes continually.
118 You have despised all those who fell away from your judgments. For their intention is unjust.
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
119 I have considered all the sinners of the earth to be transgressors. Therefore, I have loved your testimonies.
Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.
120 Pierce my flesh with your fear, for I am afraid of your judgments.
My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
121 I have accomplished judgment and justice. Do not hand me over to those who slander me.
I have executed justice and righteousness: leave me not to my oppressors.
122 Uphold your servant in what is good. And do not allow the arrogant to slander me.
Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
123 My eyes have failed in your salvation and in the eloquence of your justice.
My eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
124 Deal with your servant according to your mercy, and teach me your justifications.
Deal with thy servant according to thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.
125 I am your servant. Give me understanding, so that I may know your testimonies.
I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.
126 It is time to act, O Lord. They have dissipated your law.
It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
127 Therefore, I have loved your commandments beyond gold and topaz.
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
128 Because of this, I was directed toward all your commandments. I held hatred for every iniquitous way.
Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
129 Your testimonies are wonderful. Therefore, my soul has been examined by them.
Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.
130 The declaration of your words illuminates, and it gives understanding to little ones.
The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding to the simple.
131 I opened my mouth and drew breath, for I desired your commandments.
I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
132 Gaze upon me and be merciful to me, according to the judgment of those who love your name.
Look thou upon me, and be merciful to me, as thou didst use to do to those that love thy name.
133 Direct my steps according to your eloquence, and let no injustice rule over me.
Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
134 Redeem me from the slanders of men, so that I may keep your commandments.
Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
135 Make your face shine upon your servant, and teach me your justifications.
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.
136 My eyes have gushed like springs of water, because they have not kept your law.
Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not thy law.
137 You are just, O Lord, and your judgment is right.
Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.
138 You have commanded justice: your testimonies and your truth even more so.
Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.
139 My zeal has caused me to pine away, because my enemies have forgotten your words.
My zeal hath consumed me, because my enemies have forgotten thy words.
140 Your eloquence has been greatly enflamed, and your servant has loved it.
Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
141 I am young and treated with contempt. But I have not forgotten your justifications.
I am small and despised: yet I do not forget thy precepts.
142 Your justice is justice for all eternity, and your law is truth.
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
143 Tribulation and anguish have found me. Your commandments are my (meditation)
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
144 Your testimonies are fairness unto eternity. Give me understanding, and I will live.
The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
145 I cried out with my whole heart. Heed me, O Lord. I will ask for your justifications.
I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
146 I cried out to you. Save me, so that I may keep your commandments.
I cried to thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
147 I arrived first in maturity, and so I cried out. For in your words, I have hoped beyond hope.
I came before the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
148 My eyes preceded the dawn for you, so that I might meditate on your eloquence.
My eyes are awake through the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
149 Hear my voice according to your mercy, O Lord. And revive me according to your judgment.
Hear my voice according to thy lovingkindness: O LORD, revive me according to thy judgment.
150 Those who persecute me have drawn near to iniquity, but they have been brought far from your law.
They draw near that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
151 You are near, O Lord, and all your ways are truth.
Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.
152 I have known from the beginning about your testimonies. For you founded them in eternity.
Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
153 See my humiliation and rescue me, for I have not forgotten your law.
Consider my affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
154 Judge my judgment and redeem me. Revive me because of your eloquence.
Plead my cause, and deliver me: revive me according to thy word.
155 Salvation is far from sinners, because they have not inquired about your justifications.
Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
156 Many are your mercies, O Lord. Enliven me according to your judgment.
Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: revive me according to thy judgments.
157 Many are those who persecute me and who trouble me. I have not turned away from your testimonies.
Many are my persecutors and my enemies; yet I do not decline from thy testimonies.
158 I saw the prevaricators, and I pine away. For they have not kept your word.
I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
159 O Lord, see how I have loved your commandments. Revive me in your mercy.
Consider how I love thy precepts: revive me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
160 The beginning of your words is truth. All the judgments of your justice are for eternity.
Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
161 The leaders have persecuted me without cause. And my heart has been awed by your words.
Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
162 I will rejoice over your eloquence, like one who has found many spoils.
I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
163 I have held hatred for iniquity, and I have abhorred it. Yet I have loved your law.
I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
164 Seven times a day, I uttered praise to you about the judgments of your justice.
Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.
165 Those who love your law have great peace, and there is no scandal for them.
Great peace have they who love thy law: and nothing shall cause them to stumble.
166 I have waited for your salvation, O Lord. And I have loved your commandments.
LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and performed thy commandments.
167 My soul has kept to your testimonies and has loved them exceedingly.
My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
168 I have served your commandments and your testimonies. For all my ways are before your sight.
I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
169 O Lord, let my supplication draw near in your sight. Grant understanding to me according to your eloquence.
Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.
170 Let my petition enter before you. Rescue me according to your word.
Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.
171 A hymn will burst forth from my lips, when you will teach me your justifications.
My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
172 My tongue will pronounce your eloquence. For all your commandments are fairness.
My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
173 Let it be your hand that saves me. For I have chosen your commandments.
Let thy hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
174 O Lord, I have longed for your salvation, and your law is my (meditation)
I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
175 My soul will live and will praise you, and your judgments will assist me.
Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
176 I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost. Seek out your servant, for I have not forgotten your commandments.
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
