Psalms 119
1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
ALEPH. Blessed are those that are vpright in their way, and walke in the Lawe of the Lord.
2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
Blessed are they that keepe his testimonies, and seeke him with their whole heart.
3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
Surely they woorke none iniquitie, but walke in his waies.
4 You have commanded us to keep your precepts diligently.
Thou hast commanded to keepe thy precepts diligently.
5 O that my ways were directed to keep your statutes!
Oh that my waies were directed to keepe thy statutes!
6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all your commandments.
Then should I not be confounded, when I haue respect vnto all thy commandements.
7 I will praise you with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned your righteous judgments.
I will praise thee with an vpright heart, when I shall learne the iudgements of thy righteousnesse.
8 I will keep your statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
I will keepe thy statutes: forsake mee not ouerlong.
9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to your word.
BETH. Wherewith shall a yong man redresse his waie? in taking heede thereto according to thy woorde.
10 With my whole heart have I sought you: O let me not wander from your commandments.
With my whole heart haue I sought thee: let me not wander from thy commandements.
11 Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
I haue hid thy promise in mine heart, that I might not sinne against thee.
12 Blessed are you, O LORD: teach me your statutes.
Blessed art thou, O Lord: teache mee thy statutes.
13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of your mouth.
With my lippes haue I declared all the iudgements of thy mouth.
14 I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.
I haue had as great delight in the way of thy testimonies, as in all riches.
15 I will meditate in your precepts, and have respect to your ways.
I will meditate in thy precepts, and consider thy waies.
16 I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word.
I will delite in thy statutes, and I will not forget thy worde.
17 Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live, and keep your word.
GIMEL. Be beneficiall vnto thy seruant, that I may liue and keepe thy woorde.
18 Open you my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
Open mine eies, that I may see the wonders of thy Lawe.
19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not your commandments from me.
I am a stranger vpon earth: hide not thy commandements from me.
20 My soul breaks for the longing that it has to your judgments at all times.
Mine heart breaketh for the desire to thy iudgements alway.
21 You have rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from your commandments.
Thou hast destroied the proud: cursed are they that doe erre from thy commandements.
22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept your testimonies.
Remoue from mee shame and contempt: for I haue kept thy testimonies.
23 Princes also did sit and speak against me: but your servant did meditate in your statutes.
Princes also did sit, and speake against me: but thy seruant did meditate in thy statutes.
24 Your testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
Also thy testimonies are my delite, and my counsellers.
25 My soul sticks to the dust: quicken you me according to your word.
DALETH. My soule cleaueth to the dust: quicken me according to thy worde.
26 I have declared my ways, and you heard me: teach me your statutes.
I haue declared my waies, and thou heardest me: teache me thy statutes.
27 Make me to understand the way of your precepts: so shall I talk of your wondrous works.
Make me to vnderstand ye way of thy precepts, and I will meditate in thy wondrous workes.
28 My soul melts for heaviness: strengthen you me according to your word.
My soule melteth for heauinesse: raise mee vp according vnto thy worde.
29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me your law graciously.
Take from mee the way of lying, and graunt me graciously thy Lawe.
30 I have chosen the way of truth: your judgments have I laid before me.
I haue chosen the way of trueth, and thy iudgements haue I laied before me.
31 I have stuck to your testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.
I haue cleaued to thy testimonies, O Lord: confound me not.
32 I will run the way of your commandments, when you shall enlarge my heart.
I will runne the way of thy commandements, when thou shalt enlarge mine heart.
33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of your statutes; and I shall keep it to the end.
HE. Teach mee, O Lord, the way of thy statutes, and I will keepe it vnto the ende.
34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep your law; yes, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Giue mee vnderstanding, and I will keepe thy Law: yea, I wil keepe it with my whole heart.
35 Make me to go in the path of your commandments; for therein do I delight.
Direct mee in the path of thy commandements: for therein is my delite.
36 Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to covetousness.
Incline mine heart vnto thy testimonies, and not to couetousnesse.
37 Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken you me in your way.
Turne away mine eies from regarding vanitie, and quicken me in thy way.
38 Establish your word to your servant, who is devoted to your fear.
Stablish thy promise to thy seruaunt, because he feareth thee.
39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for your judgments are good.
Take away my rebuke that I feare: for thy iudgements are good.
40 Behold, I have longed after your precepts: quicken me in your righteousness.
Beholde, I desire thy commandements: quicken me in thy righteousnesse,
41 Let your mercies come also to me, O LORD, even your salvation, according to your word.
VAV. And let thy louing kindnesse come vnto me, O Lord, and thy saluation according to thy promise.
42 So shall I have with which to answer him that reproaches me: for I trust in your word.
So shall I make answere vnto my blasphemers: for I trust in thy woorde.
43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in your judgments.
And take not the woorde of trueth vtterly out of my mouth: for I waite for thy iudgements.
44 So shall I keep your law continually for ever and ever.
So shall I alway keepe thy Lawe for euer and euer.
45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek your precepts.
And I will walke at libertie: for I seeke thy precepts.
46 I will speak of your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
I will speake also of thy testimonies before Kings, and will not be ashamed.
47 And I will delight myself in your commandments, which I have loved.
And my delite shalbe in thy commandements, which I haue loued.
48 My hands also will I lift up to your commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in your statutes.
Mine handes also will I lift vp vnto thy commandements, which I haue loued, and I will meditate in thy statutes.
49 Remember the word to your servant, on which you have caused me to hope.
ZAIN. Remember the promise made to thy seruant, wherein thou hast caused me to trust.
50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has quickened me.
It is my comfort in my trouble: for thy promise hath quickened me.
51 The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from your law.
The proude haue had me exceedingly in derision: yet haue I not declined from thy Lawe.
52 I remembered your judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.
I remembred thy iudgements of olde, O Lord, and haue bene comforted.
53 Horror has taken hold on me because of the wicked that forsake your law.
Feare is come vpon mee for the wicked, that forsake thy Lawe.
54 Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Thy statutes haue beene my songes in the house of my pilgrimage.
55 I have remembered your name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept your law.
I haue remembred thy Name, O Lord, in the night, and haue kept thy Lawe.
56 This I had, because I kept your precepts.
This I had because I kept thy precepts.
57 You are my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep your words.
CHETH. O Lord, that art my portion, I haue determined to keepe thy wordes.
58 I entreated your favor with my whole heart: be merciful to me according to your word.
I made my supplication in thy presence with my whole heart: be mercifull vnto me according to thy promise.
59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to your testimonies.
I haue considered my waies, and turned my feete into thy testimonies.
60 I made haste, and delayed not to keep your commandments.
I made haste and delaied not to keepe thy commandements.
61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten your law.
The bandes of the wicked haue robbed me: but I haue not forgotten thy Lawe.
62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you because of your righteous judgments.
At midnight will I rise to giue thanks vnto thee, because of thy righteous iudgements.
63 I am a companion of all them that fear you, and of them that keep your precepts.
I am companion of all them that feare thee, and keepe thy precepts.
64 The earth, O LORD, is full of your mercy: teach me your statutes.
The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercie: teache me thy statutes.
65 You have dealt well with your servant, O LORD, according to your word.
TETH. O Lord, thou hast delt graciously with thy seruant according vnto thy woorde.
66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed your commandments.
Teach me good iudgement and knowledge: for I haue beleeued thy commandements.
67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept your word.
Before I was afflicted, I went astray: but nowe I keepe thy woorde.
68 You are good, and do good; teach me your statutes.
Thou art good and gracious: teach me thy statutes.
69 The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep your precepts with my whole heart.
The proud haue imagined a lie against me: but I wil keepe thy precepts with my whole heart.
70 Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in your law.
Their heart is fatte as grease: but my delite is in thy Lawe.
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn your statutes.
It is good for me that I haue beene afflicted, that I may learne thy statutes.
72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
The Lawe of thy mouth is better vnto me, then thousands of golde and siluer.
73 Your hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
IOD. Thine hands haue made me and fashioned me: giue mee vnderstanding therefore, that I may learne thy commandements.
74 They that fear you will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in your word.
So they that feare thee, seeing mee shall reioyce, because I haue trusted in thy worde.
75 I know, O LORD, that your judgments are right, and that you in faithfulness have afflicted me.
I knowe, O Lord, that thy iudgements are right, and that thou hast afflicted me iustly.
76 Let, I pray you, your merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.
I pray thee that thy mercie may comfort me according to thy promise vnto thy seruant.
77 Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live: for your law is my delight.
Let thy tender mercies come vnto me, that I may liue: for thy Lawe is my delite.
78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in your precepts.
Let the proude be ashamed: for they haue dealt wickedly and falsely with me: but I meditate in thy precepts.
79 Let those that fear you turn to me, and those that have known your testimonies.
Let such as feare thee turne vnto me, and they that knowe thy testimonies.
80 Let my heart be sound in your statutes; that I be not ashamed.
Let mine heart bee vpright in thy statutes, that I be not ashamed.
81 My soul faints for your salvation: but I hope in your word.
CAPH. My soule fainteth for thy saluation: yet I waite for thy worde.
82 My eyes fail for your word, saying, When will you comfort me?
Mine eyes faile for thy promise, saying, when wilt thou comfort me?
83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget your statutes.
For I am like a bottell in the smoke: yet doe I not forget thy statutes.
84 How many are the days of your servant? when will you execute judgment on them that persecute me?
Howe many are the dayes of thy seruant? When wilt thou execute iudgement on them that persecute me?
85 The proud have dig pits for me, which are not after your law.
The proude haue digged pittes for mee, which is not after thy Lawe.
86 All your commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help you me.
All thy commandements are true: they persecute me falsely: helpe me.
87 They had almost consumed me on earth; but I forsook not your precepts.
They had almost consumed me vpon the earth: but I forsooke not thy precepts.
88 Quicken me after your loving kindness; so shall I keep the testimony of your mouth.
Quicken me according to thy louing kindnes: so shall I keepe the testimony of thy mouth.
89 For ever, O LORD, your word is settled in heaven.
LAMED. O Lord, thy worde endureth for euer in heauen.
90 Your faithfulness is to all generations: you have established the earth, and it stays.
Thy trueth is from generation to generation: thou hast layed the foundation of the earth, and it abideth.
91 They continue this day according to your ordinances: for all are your servants.
They continue euen to this day by thine ordinances: for all are thy seruants.
92 Unless your law had been my delights, I should then have perished in my affliction.
Except thy Lawe had bene my delite, I should now haue perished in mine affliction.
93 I will never forget your precepts: for with them you have quickened me.
I wil neuer forget thy precepts: for by them thou hast quickened me.
94 I am yours, save me: for I have sought your precepts.
I am thine, saue me: for I haue sought thy precepts.
95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider your testimonies.
The wicked haue waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
96 I have seen an end of all perfection: but your commandment is exceeding broad.
I haue seene an ende of all perfection: but thy commandement is exceeding large.
97 O how I love your law! it is my meditation all the day.
MEM. Oh howe loue I thy Lawe! it is my meditation continually.
98 You through your commandments have made me wiser than my enemies: for they are ever with me.
By thy commandements thou hast made mee wiser then mine enemies: for they are euer with mee.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for your testimonies are my (meditation)
I haue had more vnderstading then all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my (meditation)
100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep your precepts.
I vnderstoode more then the ancient, because I kept thy precepts.
101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep your word.
I haue refrained my feete from euery euil way, that I might keepe thy word.
102 I have not departed from your judgments: for you have taught me.
I haue not declined from thy iudgements: for thou didest teach me.
103 How sweet are your words to my taste! yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Howe sweete are thy promises vnto my mouth! yea, more then hony vnto my mouth.
104 Through your precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
By thy precepts I haue gotten vnderstanding: therefore I hate all the wayes of falshoode.
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.
NUN. Thy worde is a lanterne vnto my feete, and a light vnto my path.
106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep your righteous judgments.
I haue sworne and will performe it, that I will keepe thy righteous iudgements.
107 I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according to your word.
I am very sore afflicted: O Lord, quicken me according to thy word.
108 Accept, I beseech you, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me your judgments.
O Lord, I beseeche thee accept the free offerings of my mouth, and teach mee thy iudgements.
109 My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget your law.
My soule is continually in mine hande: yet doe I not forget thy Lawe.
110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from your precepts.
The wicked haue layed a snare for mee: but I swarued not from thy precepts.
111 Your testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
Thy testimonies haue I taken as an heritage for euer: for they are the ioy of mine heart.
112 I have inclined my heart to perform your statutes always, even to the end.
I haue applied mine heart to fulfill thy statutes alway, euen vnto the ende.
113 I hate vain thoughts: but your law do I love.
SAMECH. I hate vaine inuentions: but thy Lawe doe I loue.
114 You are my hiding place and my shield: I hope in your word.
Thou art my refuge and shield, and I trust in thy worde.
115 Depart from me, you evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
Away from mee, yee wicked: for I will keepe the commandements of my God.
116 Uphold me according to your word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
Stablish me according to thy promise, that I may liue, and disappoint me not of mine hope.
117 Hold you me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect to your statutes continually.
Stay thou mee, and I shall be safe, and I will delite continually in thy statutes.
118 You have trodden down all them that err from your statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
Thou hast troden downe all them that depart from thy statutes: for their deceit is vaine.
119 You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love your testimonies.
Thou hast taken away all ye wicked of the earth like drosse: therefore I loue thy testimonies.
120 My flesh trembles for fear of you; and I am afraid of your judgments.
My flesh trembleth for feare of thee, and I am afraide of thy iudgements.
121 I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to my oppressors.
AIN. I haue executed iudgement and iustice: leaue me not to mine oppressours.
122 Be surety for your servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
Answere for thy seruant in that, which is good, and let not the proude oppresse me.
123 My eyes fail for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.
Mine eyes haue failed in waiting for thy saluation, and for thy iust promise.
124 Deal with your servant according to your mercy, and teach me your statutes.
Deale with thy seruant according to thy mercie, and teache me thy statutes.
125 I am your servant; give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.
I am thy seruant: graunt mee therefore vnderstanding, that I may knowe thy testimonies.
126 It is time for you, LORD, to work: for they have made void your law.
It is time for thee Lord to worke: for they haue destroyed thy Lawe.
127 Therefore I love your commandments above gold; yes, above fine gold.
Therefore loue I thy commandements aboue golde, yea, aboue most fine golde.
128 Therefore I esteem all your precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
Therefore I esteeme all thy precepts most iust, and hate all false wayes.
129 Your testimonies are wonderful: therefore does my soul keep them.
PE. Thy testimonies are wonderfull: therefore doeth my soule keepe them.
130 The entrance of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.
The entrance into thy wordes sheweth light, and giueth vnderstanding to the simple.
131 I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for your commandments.
I opened my mouth and panted, because I loued thy commandements.
132 Look you on me, and be merciful to me, as you use to do to those that love your name.
Looke vpon mee and bee mercifull vnto me, as thou vsest to doe vnto those that loue thy Name.
133 Order my steps in your word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Direct my steppes in thy worde, and let none iniquitie haue dominion ouer me.
134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep your precepts.
Deliuer mee from the oppression of men, and I will keepe thy precepts.
135 Make your face to shine on your servant; and teach me your statutes.
Shew the light of thy countenance vpon thy seruant, and teache me thy statutes.
136 Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not your law.
Mine eyes gush out with riuers of water, because they keepe not thy Lawe.
137 Righteous are you, O LORD, and upright are your judgments.
TSADDI. Righteous art thou, O Lord, and iust are thy iudgements.
138 Your testimonies that you have commanded are righteous and very faithful.
Thou hast commanded iustice by thy testimonies and trueth especially.
139 My zeal has consumed me, because my enemies have forgotten your words.
My zeale hath euen consumed mee, because mine enemies haue forgotten thy wordes.
140 Your word is very pure: therefore your servant loves it.
Thy word is prooued most pure, and thy seruant loueth it.
141 I am small and despised: yet do not I forget your precepts.
I am small and despised: yet do I not forget thy precepts.
142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is the truth.
Thy righteousnesse is an euerlasting righteousnes, and thy Lawe is trueth.
143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet your commandments are my delights.
Trouble and anguish are come vpon me: yet are thy commandements my delite.
144 The righteousness of your testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
The righteousnes of thy testimonies is euerlasting: graunt me vnderstanding, and I shall liue.
145 I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep your statutes.
KOPH. I haue cried with my whole heart: heare me, O Lord, and I will keepe thy statutes.
146 I cried to you; save me, and I shall keep your testimonies.
I called vpon thee: saue mee, and I will keepe thy testimonies.
147 I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in your word.
I preuented the morning light, and cried: for I waited on thy word.
148 My eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in your word.
Mine eyes preuent the night watches to meditate in thy word.
149 Hear my voice according to your loving kindness: O LORD, quicken me according to your judgment.
Heare my voyce according to thy louing kindenesse: O Lord, quicken me according to thy iudgement.
150 They draw near that follow after mischief: they are far from your law.
They drawe neere, that follow after malice, and are farre from thy Lawe.
151 You are near, O LORD; and all your commandments are truth.
Thou art neere, O Lord: for all thy commandements are true.
152 Concerning your testimonies, I have known of old that you have founded them for ever.
I haue knowen long since by thy testimonies, that thou hast established them for euer.
153 Consider my affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget your law.
RESH. Beholde mine affliction, and deliuer mee: for I haue not forgotten thy Lawe.
154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to your word.
Pleade my cause, and deliuer me: quicken me according vnto thy word.
155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not your statutes.
Saluation is farre from the wicked, because they seeke not thy statutes.
156 Great are your tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to your judgments.
Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord: quicken me according to thy iudgements.
157 Many are my persecutors and my enemies; yet do I not decline from your testimonies.
My persecutours and mine oppressours are many: yet doe I not swarue from thy testimonies.
158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not your word.
I saw the transgressours and was grieued, because they kept not thy worde.
159 Consider how I love your precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to your loving kindness.
Consider, O Lord, how I loue thy preceptes: quicken mee according to thy louing kindenesse.
160 Your word is true from the beginning: and every one of your righteous judgments endures for ever.
The beginning of thy worde is trueth, and all the iudgements of thy righteousnesse endure for euer.
161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart stands in awe of your word.
SCHIN. Princes haue persecuted mee without cause, but mine heart stood in awe of thy wordes.
162 I rejoice at your word, as one that finds great spoil.
I reioyce at thy worde, as one that findeth a great spoyle.
163 I hate and abhor lying: but your law do I love.
I hate falshoode and abhorre it, but thy Lawe doe I loue.
164 Seven times a day do I praise you because of your righteous judgments.
Seuen times a day doe I praise thee, because of thy righteous iudgements.
165 Great peace have they which love your law: and nothing shall offend them.
They that loue thy Law, shall haue great prosperitie, and they shall haue none hurt.
166 LORD, I have hoped for your salvation, and done your commandments.
Lord, I haue trusted in thy saluation, and haue done thy commandements.
167 My soul has kept your testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
My soule hath kept thy testimonies: for I loue them exceedingly.
168 I have kept your precepts and your testimonies: for all my ways are before you.
I haue kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my wayes are before thee.
169 Let my cry come near before you, O LORD: give me understanding according to your word.
TAV. Let my complaint come before thee, O Lord, and giue me vnderstanding, according vnto thy worde.
170 Let my supplication come before you: deliver me according to your word.
Let my supplication come before thee, and deliuer me according to thy promise.
171 My lips shall utter praise, when you have taught me your statutes.
My lippes shall speake praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
172 My tongue shall speak of your word: for all your commandments are righteousness.
My tongue shall intreate of thy word: for all thy commandements are righteous.
173 Let your hand help me; for I have chosen your precepts.
Let thine hand helpe me: for I haue chosen thy precepts.
174 I have longed for your salvation, O LORD; and your law is my delight.
I haue longed for thy saluation, O Lord, and thy Lawe is my delite.
175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise you; and let your judgments help me.
Let my soule liue, and it shall praise thee, and thy iudgements shall helpe me.
176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant; for I do not forget your commandments.
I haue gone astraye like a lost sheepe: seeke thy seruant, for I doe not forget thy commandements.
