Psalms 119
1 ALEPH. Blessed are those that are vpright in their way, and walke in the Lawe of the Lord.
Happy they whose life is blameless, who walk by the law of the Lord.
2 Blessed are they that keepe his testimonies, and seeke him with their whole heart.
Happy they who keep his charges, and seek him with all their hearts;
3 Surely they woorke none iniquitie, but walke in his waies.
who have done no wrong, but walk in his ways.
4 Thou hast commanded to keepe thy precepts diligently.
You yourself have appointed your precepts to be kept with diligence.
5 Oh that my waies were directed to keepe thy statutes!
O to be steadily guided in the keeping of your statutes!
6 Then should I not be confounded, when I haue respect vnto all thy commandements.
Then unashamed shall I be, when I look towards all your commandments.
7 I will praise thee with an vpright heart, when I shall learne the iudgements of thy righteousnesse.
I will thank you with heart unfeigned, when I learn your righteous judgments.
8 I will keepe thy statutes: forsake mee not ouerlong.
I will observe your statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
9 BETH. Wherewith shall a yong man redresse his waie? in taking heede thereto according to thy woorde.
How can a young person keep their life pure? By giving heed to your word.
10 With my whole heart haue I sought thee: let me not wander from thy commandements.
With all my heart have I sought you, let me not stray from your commandments.
11 I haue hid thy promise in mine heart, that I might not sinne against thee.
In my heart have I treasured your word, to keep from sinning against you.
12 Blessed art thou, O Lord: teache mee thy statutes.
Blessed are you, O Lord; teach me your statutes.
13 With my lippes haue I declared all the iudgements of thy mouth.
With my lips have I rehearsed all the judgments of your mouth.
14 I haue had as great delight in the way of thy testimonies, as in all riches.
I delight in the way of your charges, more than in riches of all sorts.
15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and consider thy waies.
I will muse upon your precepts, and look to your paths.
16 I will delite in thy statutes, and I will not forget thy worde.
In your statutes I delight, I will not forget your word.
17 GIMEL. Be beneficiall vnto thy seruant, that I may liue and keepe thy woorde.
Grant that your servant may live, and I will observe your word.
18 Open mine eies, that I may see the wonders of thy Lawe.
Open my eyes, that I see wondrous things out of your law.
19 I am a stranger vpon earth: hide not thy commandements from me.
But a guest am I on the earth: hide not your commandments from me.
20 Mine heart breaketh for the desire to thy iudgements alway.
My heart is crushed with longing for your ordinances, at all times.
21 Thou hast destroied the proud: cursed are they that doe erre from thy commandements.
You rebuke the proud, the accursed, who wander from your commandments.
22 Remoue from mee shame and contempt: for I haue kept thy testimonies.
Roll away from me scorn and contempt, for I have observed your charges.
23 Princes also did sit, and speake against me: but thy seruant did meditate in thy statutes.
Though princes sit plotting against me, your servant will muse on your statutes.
24 Also thy testimonies are my delite, and my counsellers.
Your charges are my delight, they are my counsellors.
25 DALETH. My soule cleaueth to the dust: quicken me according to thy worde.
I lie grovelling in the dust; revive me, as you have promised.
26 I haue declared my waies, and thou heardest me: teache me thy statutes.
I told of my ways, you made answer; teach me your statutes.
27 Make me to vnderstand ye way of thy precepts, and I will meditate in thy wondrous workes.
Grant me insight into your precepts, and I will muse on your wonders.
28 My soule melteth for heauinesse: raise mee vp according vnto thy worde.
I am overcome with sorrow; raise me up, as you have promised.
29 Take from mee the way of lying, and graunt me graciously thy Lawe.
Put the way of falsehood from me, and graciously grant me your law.
30 I haue chosen the way of trueth, and thy iudgements haue I laied before me.
I have chosen the way of fidelity, your ordinances I long for.
31 I haue cleaued to thy testimonies, O Lord: confound me not.
I hold fast to your charges: O put me not, Lord, to shame.
32 I will runne the way of thy commandements, when thou shalt enlarge mine heart.
I will run in the way of your commandments, for you give me room of heart.
33 HE. Teach mee, O Lord, the way of thy statutes, and I will keepe it vnto the ende.
Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes, and I will keep it to the end,
34 Giue mee vnderstanding, and I will keepe thy Law: yea, I wil keepe it with my whole heart.
instruct me to keep your law, and I will observe it with all my heart.
35 Direct mee in the path of thy commandements: for therein is my delite.
Guide me in the path of your commandments, for therein do I delight.
36 Incline mine heart vnto thy testimonies, and not to couetousnesse.
Incline my heart to your charges, and not to greed of gain.
37 Turne away mine eies from regarding vanitie, and quicken me in thy way.
Turn away my eyes from vain sights, revive me by your word.
38 Stablish thy promise to thy seruaunt, because he feareth thee.
Confirm to your servant the promise which is given to those who fear you.
39 Take away my rebuke that I feare: for thy iudgements are good.
Remove the reproach which I dread, because your judgments are good.
40 Beholde, I desire thy commandements: quicken me in thy righteousnesse,
Behold, I long for your precepts. Quicken me in your righteousness.
41 VAV. And let thy louing kindnesse come vnto me, O Lord, and thy saluation according to thy promise.
Visit me, Lord, with your love and salvation, as you have promised.
42 So shall I make answere vnto my blasphemers: for I trust in thy woorde.
So shall I answer my slanderers, for my trust is in your word.
43 And take not the woorde of trueth vtterly out of my mouth: for I waite for thy iudgements.
Snatch not from my mouth the word of truth, for in your judgments I hope.
44 So shall I alway keepe thy Lawe for euer and euer.
I will keep your law continually, for ever and evermore.
45 And I will walke at libertie: for I seeke thy precepts.
So shall I walk in wide spaces, for I give my mind to your precepts.
46 I will speake also of thy testimonies before Kings, and will not be ashamed.
I will speak of your charge before kings, and will not be ashamed thereof.
47 And my delite shalbe in thy commandements, which I haue loued.
Your commandments are my delight, I love them exceedingly.
48 Mine handes also will I lift vp vnto thy commandements, which I haue loued, and I will meditate in thy statutes.
I will lift up my hands to your commandments, and muse upon your statutes.
49 ZAIN. Remember the promise made to thy seruant, wherein thou hast caused me to trust.
Remember your word to your servant, on which you have made me to hope.
50 It is my comfort in my trouble: for thy promise hath quickened me.
This is my comfort in trouble, that your word gives life to me.
51 The proude haue had me exceedingly in derision: yet haue I not declined from thy Lawe.
The arrogant utterly scorn me, but I have not declined from your law.
52 I remembred thy iudgements of olde, O Lord, and haue bene comforted.
When I think of your judgments of old, O Lord, I take to me comfort.
53 Feare is come vpon mee for the wicked, that forsake thy Lawe.
I am seized with glowing anger at the wicked who forsake your law.
54 Thy statutes haue beene my songes in the house of my pilgrimage.
Your statutes have been to me songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
55 I haue remembred thy Name, O Lord, in the night, and haue kept thy Lawe.
I remember your name in the night, O Lord and observe your law.
56 This I had because I kept thy precepts.
My lot has been this, that I have kept your precepts.
57 CHETH. O Lord, that art my portion, I haue determined to keepe thy wordes.
My portion are you, O Lord: I have promised to keep your words.
58 I made my supplication in thy presence with my whole heart: be mercifull vnto me according to thy promise.
I entreat you with all my heart; grant me your promised favor.
59 I haue considered my waies, and turned my feete into thy testimonies.
I have thought upon my ways, and turned my feet to your charges.
60 I made haste and delaied not to keepe thy commandements.
I hasted and tarried not to give heed to your commandments.
61 The bandes of the wicked haue robbed me: but I haue not forgotten thy Lawe.
Though the godless have wound their cords round me, I have not forgotten your law.
62 At midnight will I rise to giue thanks vnto thee, because of thy righteous iudgements.
At midnight I rise to praise you because of your righteous judgments.
63 I am companion of all them that feare thee, and keepe thy precepts.
With all those who fear you I company, aid with those who observe your precepts.
64 The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercie: teache me thy statutes.
The earth, Lord, is full of your kindness; teach me your Statutes.
65 TETH. O Lord, thou hast delt graciously with thy seruant according vnto thy woorde.
Well have you dealt with your servant, as you have promised, O Lord.
66 Teach me good iudgement and knowledge: for I haue beleeued thy commandements.
Teach me discretion and knowledge, for I have believed your commandments.
67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray: but nowe I keepe thy woorde.
Till trouble came I was a wanderer, but now I observe your word.
68 Thou art good and gracious: teach me thy statutes.
You are good and do good; teach me your statutes.
69 The proud haue imagined a lie against me: but I wil keepe thy precepts with my whole heart.
The proud have forged lies against me, but I keep your precepts with all my heart.
70 Their heart is fatte as grease: but my delite is in thy Lawe.
Their heart is gross like fat, but I delight in your law.
71 It is good for me that I haue beene afflicted, that I may learne thy statutes.
It was good for me to be humbled, that I should learn your statutes.
72 The Lawe of thy mouth is better vnto me, then thousands of golde and siluer.
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of silver and gold.
73 IOD. Thine hands haue made me and fashioned me: giue mee vnderstanding therefore, that I may learne thy commandements.
Your hands have made me and fashioned me; make me wise to learn your commandments.
74 So they that feare thee, seeing mee shall reioyce, because I haue trusted in thy worde.
Those who fear you shall see me with joy, for in your word have I hoped.
75 I knowe, O Lord, that thy iudgements are right, and that thou hast afflicted me iustly.
I know, O Lord, that your judgments are right, and in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
76 I pray thee that thy mercie may comfort me according to thy promise vnto thy seruant.
Let your love be a comfort to me, for so have you promised your servant.
77 Let thy tender mercies come vnto me, that I may liue: for thy Lawe is my delite.
Visit me with your quickening pity, for your law is my delight.
78 Let the proude be ashamed: for they haue dealt wickedly and falsely with me: but I meditate in thy precepts.
Put the proud to shame, who have wronged me falsely: I will muse on your precepts.
79 Let such as feare thee turne vnto me, and they that knowe thy testimonies.
Let those turn to me who fear you, that they may learn your charges.
80 Let mine heart bee vpright in thy statutes, that I be not ashamed.
Let my heart be sound in your statutes, that I may not be put to shame.
81 CAPH. My soule fainteth for thy saluation: yet I waite for thy worde.
My long for you to rescue me, I put my hope in your word.
82 Mine eyes faile for thy promise, saying, when wilt thou comfort me?
My eyes pine away for your promise: saying, “When will you comfort me?”
83 For I am like a bottell in the smoke: yet doe I not forget thy statutes.
Though shrivelled like wine-skin in smoke, your statutes I have not forgotten.
84 Howe many are the dayes of thy seruant? When wilt thou execute iudgement on them that persecute me?
How few are the days of your servant! When will you judge those who harass me?
85 The proude haue digged pittes for mee, which is not after thy Lawe.
Proud people have dug for me pits people who do not conform to your law.
86 All thy commandements are true: they persecute me falsely: helpe me.
All your commandments are trusty. With falsehood they harass me: help me.
87 They had almost consumed me vpon the earth: but I forsooke not thy precepts.
They had nearly made an end of me, yet I did not forget your precepts.
88 Quicken me according to thy louing kindnes: so shall I keepe the testimony of thy mouth.
Spare me in your kindness, and I will observe the charge of your mouth.
89 LAMED. O Lord, thy worde endureth for euer in heauen.
Forever, O Lord, is your word fixed firmly in the heavens.
90 Thy trueth is from generation to generation: thou hast layed the foundation of the earth, and it abideth.
Your truth endures age after age; it is established on earth, and it stands.
91 They continue euen to this day by thine ordinances: for all are thy seruants.
By your appointment they stand this day, for all are your servants.
92 Except thy Lawe had bene my delite, I should now haue perished in mine affliction.
Had not your law been my joy, in my misery then had I perished.
93 I wil neuer forget thy precepts: for by them thou hast quickened me.
I will never forget your precepts, for through them you have put life in me.
94 I am thine, saue me: for I haue sought thy precepts.
I am yours, O save me, for I give my mind to your precepts.
95 The wicked haue waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
The wicked lay wait to destroy me, but I give heed to your charge.
96 I haue seene an ende of all perfection: but thy commandement is exceeding large.
I have seen a limit to all things: but your commandment is spacious exceedingly.
97 MEM. Oh howe loue I thy Lawe! it is my meditation continually.
O how I love your law! All the day long I muse on it.
98 By thy commandements thou hast made mee wiser then mine enemies: for they are euer with mee.
Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies: for it is mine forever.
99 I haue had more vnderstading then all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my (meditation)
I am prudent above all my teachers, for your charges are my (meditation)
100 I vnderstoode more then the ancient, because I kept thy precepts.
I have insight more than the aged, because I observe your precepts.
101 I haue refrained my feete from euery euil way, that I might keepe thy word.
I refrain my foot from all wicked ways, that I may keep your word.
102 I haue not declined from thy iudgements: for thou didest teach me.
I turn not aside from your judgments, for you yourself are my teacher.
103 Howe sweete are thy promises vnto my mouth! yea, more then hony vnto my mouth.
How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 By thy precepts I haue gotten vnderstanding: therefore I hate all the wayes of falshoode.
Insight I win through your precepts, therefore every false way I hate.
105 NUN. Thy worde is a lanterne vnto my feete, and a light vnto my path.
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.
106 I haue sworne and will performe it, that I will keepe thy righteous iudgements.
I have sworn an oath, and will keep it, to observe your righteous judgments.
107 I am very sore afflicted: O Lord, quicken me according to thy word.
I am afflicted sorely: revive me, O Lord, as you said.
108 O Lord, I beseeche thee accept the free offerings of my mouth, and teach mee thy iudgements.
Accept, Lord, my willing praise, and teach me your judgments.
109 My soule is continually in mine hande: yet doe I not forget thy Lawe.
My life is in ceaseless peril; but I do not forget your law.
110 The wicked haue layed a snare for mee: but I swarued not from thy precepts.
The wicked set traps for me, yet I do not stray from your precepts.
111 Thy testimonies haue I taken as an heritage for euer: for they are the ioy of mine heart.
In your charges are my everlasting inheritance, they are the joy of my heart.
112 I haue applied mine heart to fulfill thy statutes alway, euen vnto the ende.
I am resolved to perform your statutes forever, to the utmost.
113 SAMECH. I hate vaine inuentions: but thy Lawe doe I loue.
I hate people of divided heart, but your law do I love.
114 Thou art my refuge and shield, and I trust in thy worde.
You are my shelter and shield: in your word do I hope.
115 Away from mee, yee wicked: for I will keepe the commandements of my God.
Begone, you wicked people, I will keep the commands of my God.
116 Stablish me according to thy promise, that I may liue, and disappoint me not of mine hope.
Uphold me and spare me, as you have promised: O disappoint me not.
117 Stay thou mee, and I shall be safe, and I will delite continually in thy statutes.
Hold me up, and I shall be saved: and your statutes shall be my unceasing delight.
118 Thou hast troden downe all them that depart from thy statutes: for their deceit is vaine.
All who swerve from your statutes you spurn: their cunning is in vain.
119 Thou hast taken away all ye wicked of the earth like drosse: therefore I loue thy testimonies.
All the wicked of earth you count as dross, therefore I love your charges.
120 My flesh trembleth for feare of thee, and I am afraide of thy iudgements.
My flesh, for fear of you, shudders, and I stand in awe of your judgments.
121 AIN. I haue executed iudgement and iustice: leaue me not to mine oppressours.
Justice and right have I practised, do not leave me to my oppressors.
122 Answere for thy seruant in that, which is good, and let not the proude oppresse me.
Be your servant’s surety for good, let not the proud oppress me.
123 Mine eyes haue failed in waiting for thy saluation, and for thy iust promise.
My eyes pine for your salvation, and for your righteous promise.
124 Deale with thy seruant according to thy mercie, and teache me thy statutes.
Deal in your love with your servant, and teach me your statutes.
125 I am thy seruant: graunt mee therefore vnderstanding, that I may knowe thy testimonies.
Your servant am I; instruct me, that I may know your charges.
126 It is time for thee Lord to worke: for they haue destroyed thy Lawe.
It is time for the Lord to act: they have violated your law.
127 Therefore loue I thy commandements aboue golde, yea, aboue most fine golde.
Therefore I love your commandments above gold, above fine gold.
128 Therefore I esteeme all thy precepts most iust, and hate all false wayes.
So by all your precepts I guide me, and every false way I hate.
129 PE. Thy testimonies are wonderfull: therefore doeth my soule keepe them.
Your decrees are wonderful, gladly I keep them.
130 The entrance into thy wordes sheweth light, and giueth vnderstanding to the simple.
When your word is unfolded, light breaks; it imparts to the simple wisdom.
131 I opened my mouth and panted, because I loued thy commandements.
With open mouth I pant with longing for your commandments.
132 Looke vpon mee and bee mercifull vnto me, as thou vsest to doe vnto those that loue thy Name.
Turn to me with your favor, as is just to those who love you.
133 Direct my steppes in thy worde, and let none iniquitie haue dominion ouer me.
Steady my steps by your word, so that sin have no power over me.
134 Deliuer mee from the oppression of men, and I will keepe thy precepts.
Set me free from those who oppress me, and I shall observe your precepts.
135 Shew the light of thy countenance vpon thy seruant, and teache me thy statutes.
Shine with your face on your servant, and teach me your statutes.
136 Mine eyes gush out with riuers of water, because they keepe not thy Lawe.
My eyes run down with rills of water, because your law is not kept.
137 TSADDI. Righteous art thou, O Lord, and iust are thy iudgements.
Righteous are you, O Lord, and right are your ordinances.
138 Thou hast commanded iustice by thy testimonies and trueth especially.
The laws you has ordered are just, and trusty exceedingly.
139 My zeale hath euen consumed mee, because mine enemies haue forgotten thy wordes.
My jealousy has undone me, that my foes have forgotten your words.
140 Thy word is prooued most pure, and thy seruant loueth it.
Your word has been tested well; and your servant loves it.
141 I am small and despised: yet do I not forget thy precepts.
I am little and held in contempt, but your precepts I have not forgotten.
142 Thy righteousnesse is an euerlasting righteousnes, and thy Lawe is trueth.
Just is your justice forever, and trusty is your law.
143 Trouble and anguish are come vpon me: yet are thy commandements my delite.
Stress and strain are upon me, but your commandments are my delight.
144 The righteousnes of thy testimonies is euerlasting: graunt me vnderstanding, and I shall liue.
Right are your charges forever, instruct me that I may live.
145 KOPH. I haue cried with my whole heart: heare me, O Lord, and I will keepe thy statutes.
With my whole heart I cry; O answer me. I would keep your statutes, O Lord.
146 I called vpon thee: saue mee, and I will keepe thy testimonies.
I cry to you: O save me, and I will observe your charges.
147 I preuented the morning light, and cried: for I waited on thy word.
Ere the dawn I cry for your help: in your word do I hope.
148 Mine eyes preuent the night watches to meditate in thy word.
Awake I meet the night-watches, to muse upon your sayings.
149 Heare my voyce according to thy louing kindenesse: O Lord, quicken me according to thy iudgement.
Hear my voice in your kindness: O Lord, by your judgments revive me.
150 They drawe neere, that follow after malice, and are farre from thy Lawe.
Near me are wicked tormentors, who are far from thoughts of your law;
151 Thou art neere, O Lord: for all thy commandements are true.
but near, too, are you, O Lord, and all your commandments are trusty.
152 I haue knowen long since by thy testimonies, that thou hast established them for euer.
Long have I known from your charges that you have founded them for all time.
153 RESH. Beholde mine affliction, and deliuer mee: for I haue not forgotten thy Lawe.
Look on my misery, and rescue me; for I do not forget your law.
154 Pleade my cause, and deliuer me: quicken me according vnto thy word.
Defend my cause and redeem me: revive me, as you have promised.
155 Saluation is farre from the wicked, because they seeke not thy statutes.
Salvation is far from the wicked, for their mind is not in your statutes.
156 Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord: quicken me according to thy iudgements.
Great is your pity, O Lord: Revive me, as you have ordained.
157 My persecutours and mine oppressours are many: yet doe I not swarue from thy testimonies.
My foes and tormentors are many, but I have not declined from your charges.
158 I saw the transgressours and was grieued, because they kept not thy worde.
I behold the traitors with loathing, for they do not observe your word.
159 Consider, O Lord, how I loue thy preceptes: quicken mee according to thy louing kindenesse.
Behold how I love your precepts: revive me, O Lord!, in your kindness.
160 The beginning of thy worde is trueth, and all the iudgements of thy righteousnesse endure for euer.
The sum of your word is truth, all your laws are just and eternal.
161 SCHIN. Princes haue persecuted mee without cause, but mine heart stood in awe of thy wordes.
Princes have harassed me wantonly: but my heart stands in awe of your word.
162 I reioyce at thy worde, as one that findeth a great spoyle.
Over your word I rejoice as one who finds great spoil.
163 I hate falshoode and abhorre it, but thy Lawe doe I loue.
Falsehood I hate and abhor, but your law do I love.
164 Seuen times a day doe I praise thee, because of thy righteous iudgements.
Seven times a day do I praise you because of your righteous judgments.
165 They that loue thy Law, shall haue great prosperitie, and they shall haue none hurt.
Right well do they fare who love your law: they go on their way without stumbling.
166 Lord, I haue trusted in thy saluation, and haue done thy commandements.
I hope for your salvation; O Lord I do your commandments.
167 My soule hath kept thy testimonies: for I loue them exceedingly.
I observe your charges: I love them greatly.
168 I haue kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my wayes are before thee.
I observe your precepts and charges: all my ways are before you.
169 TAV. Let my complaint come before thee, O Lord, and giue me vnderstanding, according vnto thy worde.
Let my cry come before you, O Lord: give me insight, as you have promised.
170 Let my supplication come before thee, and deliuer me according to thy promise.
Let my prayer enter into your presence: deliver me, as you have said.
171 My lippes shall speake praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
My lips shall be fountains of praise, that you teach me your statutes.
172 My tongue shall intreate of thy word: for all thy commandements are righteous.
My tongue shall sing of your word, for all your commandments are right.
173 Let thine hand helpe me: for I haue chosen thy precepts.
Let your hand be ready to help me, for your precepts have been my choice.
174 I haue longed for thy saluation, O Lord, and thy Lawe is my delite.
I long, Lord, for your salvation, and your law is my delight.
175 Let my soule liue, and it shall praise thee, and thy iudgements shall helpe me.
Revive me that I may praise you, and let your precepts help me.
176 I haue gone astraye like a lost sheepe: seeke thy seruant, for I doe not forget thy commandements.
I have strayed like a wandering sheep seek your servant, because I do not forget your commandments.
