Psalms 119
1 Alleluia. Blessed are the blameless 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 search out his testimonies: they will diligently seek him with the whole heart.
Blessed are they that keepe his testimonies, and seeke him with their whole heart.
3 For they that work iniquity have not walked in his ways.
Surely they woorke none iniquitie, but walke in his waies.
4 You have commanded [us] diligently to keep your precepts.
Thou hast commanded to keepe thy precepts diligently.
5 O that my ways were directed to keep your ordinances.
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 give you thanks with uprightness of heart, when I have learned the judgments of your righteousness.
I will praise thee with an vpright heart, when I shall learne the iudgements of thy righteousnesse.
8 I will keep your ordinances: O forsake me not greatly.
I will keepe thy statutes: forsake mee not ouerlong.
9 Wherewith shall a young man direct his way? by keeping your words.
BETH. Wherewith shall a yong man redresse his waie? in taking heede thereto according to thy woorde.
10 With my whole heart have I diligently sought you: cast me not away from your commandments.
With my whole heart haue I sought thee: let me not wander from thy commandements.
11 I have hidden your oracles 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 ordinances.
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 delighted 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 on your commandments, and consider your ways.
I will meditate in thy precepts, and consider thy waies.
16 I will meditate on your ordinances: I will not forget your words.
I will delite in thy statutes, and I will not forget thy worde.
17 Render a recompense to your servant: [so] shall I live, and keep your words.
GIMEL. Be beneficiall vnto thy seruant, that I may liue and keepe thy woorde.
18 Unveil you mine eyes, and I shall perceive wondrous things 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 has longed exceedingly for your judgments at all times.
Mine heart breaketh for the desire to thy iudgements alway.
21 You have rebuked the proud: cursed are they that turn aside 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 sought out your testimonies.
Remoue from mee shame and contempt: for I haue kept thy testimonies.
23 For princes sat and spoke against me: but your servant was meditating on your ordinances.
Princes also did sit, and speake against me: but thy seruant did meditate in thy statutes.
24 For your testimonies are my (meditation) and your ordinances are my counselors.
Also thy testimonies are my delite, and my counsellers.
25 My soul has cleaved to the ground; quicken you me according to your word.
DALETH. My soule cleaueth to the dust: quicken me according to thy worde.
26 I declared my ways, and you did hear me: teach me your ordinances.
I haue declared my waies, and thou heardest me: teache me thy statutes.
27 Instruct me in the way of your ordinances; and I will meditate on your wondrous works.
Make me to vnderstand ye way of thy precepts, and I will meditate in thy wondrous workes.
28 My soul has slumbered for sorrow; strengthen you me with your words.
My soule melteth for heauinesse: raise mee vp according vnto thy worde.
29 Remove from me the way of iniquity; and be merciful to me by your law.
Take from mee the way of lying, and graunt me graciously thy Lawe.
30 I have chosen the way of truth; and have not forgotten your judgments.
I haue chosen the way of trueth, and thy iudgements haue I laied before me.
31 I have cleaved to your testimonies, O Lord; put me not to shame.
I haue cleaued to thy testimonies, O Lord: confound me not.
32 I ran the way of your commandments, when you did 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 ordinances, and I will seek it out continually.
HE. Teach mee, O Lord, the way of thy statutes, and I will keepe it vnto the ende.
34 Instruct me, and I will search out your law, and will keep it with my whole heart.
Giue mee vnderstanding, and I will keepe thy Law: yea, I wil keepe it with my whole heart.
35 Guide me in the path of your commandments; for I have delighted in it.
Direct mee in the path of thy commandements: for therein is my delite.
36 Incline mine heart to your testimonies, and not to covetousness.
Incline mine heart vnto thy testimonies, and not to couetousnesse.
37 Turn away mine eyes that I may not behold vanity: quicken you me in your way.
Turne away mine eies from regarding vanitie, and quicken me in thy way.
38 Confirm your oracle to your servant, that he may fear you.
Stablish thy promise to thy seruaunt, because he feareth thee.
39 Take away my reproach which I have feared: for your judgments are good.
Take away my rebuke that I feare: for thy iudgements are good.
40 Behold, I have desired your commandments: quicken me in your righteousness.
Beholde, I desire thy commandements: quicken me in thy righteousnesse,
41 And let your mercy come upon 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 And [so] I shall render an answer to them that reproach me: for I have trusted in your words.
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. So shall I keep your law continually, for ever and ever.
And take not the woorde of trueth vtterly out of my mouth: for I waite for thy iudgements.
So shall I alway keepe thy Lawe for euer and euer.
45 I walked also at large: for I sought out your commandments.
And I will walke at libertie: for I seeke thy precepts.
46 And I spoke of your testimonies before kings, and was not ashamed.
I will speake also of thy testimonies before Kings, and will not be ashamed.
47 And I meditated on your commandments, which I loved exceedingly.
And my delite shalbe in thy commandements, which I haue loued.
48 And I lifted up my hands to your commandments which I loved; and I meditated in your ordinances.
Mine handes also will I lift vp vnto thy commandements, which I haue loued, and I will meditate in thy statutes.
49 Remember your words to your servant, wherein you have made me hope.
ZAIN. Remember the promise made to thy seruant, wherein thou hast caused me to trust.
50 This has comforted me in mine affliction: for your oracle has quickened me.
It is my comfort in my trouble: for thy promise hath quickened me.
51 The proud have transgressed exceedingly; but I swerved not 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 was comforted.
I remembred thy iudgements of olde, O Lord, and haue bene comforted.
53 Despair took hold upon me, because of the sinners who forsake your law.
Feare is come vpon mee for the wicked, that forsake thy Lawe.
54 Your ordinances were my songs in the place of my sojourning.
Thy statutes haue beene my songes in the house of my pilgrimage.
55 I remembered your name, O Lord, in the night, and kept your law.
I haue remembred thy Name, O Lord, in the night, and haue kept thy Lawe.
56 This I had, because I diligently sought your ordinances.
This I had because I kept thy precepts.
57 You are my portion, O Lord: I said that I would keep your law.
CHETH. O Lord, that art my portion, I haue determined to keepe thy wordes.
58 I implored your favor with my whole heart: have mercy upon 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 your ways, and turned my feet to your testimonies.
I haue considered my waies, and turned my feete into thy testimonies.
60 I prepared myself, (and was not terrified, ) to keep your commandments.
I made haste and delaied not to keepe thy commandements.
61 The snares of sinners entangled me: but I forgot not your law.
The bandes of the wicked haue robbed me: but I haue not forgotten thy Lawe.
62 At midnight I arose, to give thanks to you for the judgments of your righteousness.
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 commandments.
I am companion of all them that feare thee, and keepe thy precepts.
64 O Lord, the earth is full of your mercy: teach me your ordinances.
The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercie: teache me thy statutes.
65 You have wrought kindly 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 kindness, and instruction, 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 transgressed; therefore have I kept your word.
Before I was afflicted, I went astray: but nowe I keepe thy woorde.
68 Good are you, O Lord; therefore in your goodness teach me your ordinances.
Thou art good and gracious: 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 haue imagined a lie against me: but I wil keepe thy precepts with my whole heart.
70 Their heart has been curdled like milk; but I have meditated on your law.
Their heart is fatte as grease: but my delite is in thy Lawe.
71 [It is] good for me that you have afflicted me; that I might learn your ordinances.
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: instruct me, 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 see me and rejoice: for I have hoped in your words.
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 righteousness, and [that] you in truthfulness 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 mercy be to comfort me, 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 compassions come to me, that I may live: for your law is my (meditation)
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 transgressed against me unjustly: but I will meditate in your commandments.
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, and those that know your testimonies, turn to me.
Let such as feare thee turne vnto me, and they that knowe thy testimonies.
80 Let mine heart be blameless in your ordinances, that I may not be ashamed.
Let mine heart bee vpright in thy statutes, that I be not ashamed.
81 My soul faints for your salvation: I have hoped in your words.
CAPH. My soule fainteth for thy saluation: yet I waite for thy worde.
82 Mine eyes failed [in waiting] 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 as a bottle in the frost: [yet] I have not forgotten your ordinances.
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 for me on them that persecute me?
Howe many are the dayes of thy seruant? When wilt thou execute iudgement on them that persecute me?
85 Transgressors told me [idle tales]; but not according to your law, O Lord.
The proude haue digged pittes for mee, which is not after thy Lawe.
86 All your commandments are truth; they persecuted me unjustly; help you me.
All thy commandements are true: they persecute me falsely: helpe me.
87 They nearly made an end of me in the earth; but I forsook not your commandments.
They had almost consumed me vpon the earth: but I forsooke not thy precepts.
88 Quicken me according to your mercy; so shall I keep the testimonies of your mouth.
Quicken me according to thy louing kindnes: so shall I keepe the testimony of thy mouth.
89 Your word, O Lord, abides in heaven for ever.
LAMED. O Lord, thy worde endureth for euer in heauen.
90 Your truth [endures] to all generations; you have founded the earth, and it abides.
Thy trueth is from generation to generation: thou hast layed the foundation of the earth, and it abideth.
91 The day continues by your arrangement; for all things are your servants.
They continue euen to this day by thine ordinances: for all are thy seruants.
92 Were it not that your law is my (meditation) then I should have perished in mine affliction.
Except thy Lawe had bene my delite, I should now haue perished in mine affliction.
93 I will never forget your ordinances; for with them you have quickened me.
I wil neuer forget thy precepts: for by them thou hast quickened me.
94 I am your, save me; for I have sought out your ordinances.
I am thine, saue me: for I haue sought thy precepts.
95 Sinners laid wait for me to destroy me; [but] I understood your testimonies.
The wicked haue waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
96 have seen an end of all perfection; [but] your commandment is very broad.
I haue seene an ende of all perfection: but thy commandement is exceeding large.
97 How I have loved your law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the day.
MEM. Oh howe loue I thy Lawe! it is my meditation continually.
98 You have made me wiser than mine enemies [in] your commandment; for it is mine for ever.
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 medication.
I haue had more vnderstading then all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my (meditation)
100 I understand more that the aged; because I have sought out your commandments.
I vnderstoode more then the ancient, because I kept thy precepts.
101 I have kept back my feet from every evil way, that I might keep your words.
I haue refrained my feete from euery euil way, that I might keepe thy word.
102 I have not declined from your judgments; for you have instructed me.
I haue not declined from thy iudgements: for thou didest teach me.
103 How sweet are your oracles to my throat! more so than honey to my mouth!
Howe sweete are thy promises vnto my mouth! yea, more then hony vnto my mouth.
104 I gain understanding by your commandments: therefore I have hated every way of unrighteousness.
By thy precepts I haue gotten vnderstanding: therefore I hate all the wayes of falshoode.
105 Your law is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths.
NUN. Thy worde is a lanterne vnto my feete, and a light vnto my path.
106 I have sworn and determined to keep the judgments of your righteousness.
I haue sworne and will performe it, that I will keepe thy righteous iudgements.
107 I have been very greatly afflicted, O Lord: quicken me, according to your word.
I am very sore afflicted: O Lord, quicken me according to thy word.
108 Accept, I pray you, O Lord, the free will offerings of my mouth, 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 your hands; and I have not forgotten your law.
My soule is continually in mine hande: yet doe I not forget thy Lawe.
110 Sinners spread a snare for me; but I erred not from your commandments.
The wicked haue layed a snare for mee: but I swarued not from thy precepts.
111 I have inherited your testimonies for ever; for they are the joy 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 ordinances for ever, in return [for your mercies].
I haue applied mine heart to fulfill thy statutes alway, euen vnto the ende.
113 I have hated transgressors; but I have loved your law.
SAMECH. I hate vaine inuentions: but thy Lawe doe I loue.
114 You are my helper and my supporter; I have hoped in your words.
Thou art my refuge and shield, and I trust in thy worde.
115 Depart from me, you evil-doers; for I will search out 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, and quicken me; and make me not ashamed of my expectation.
Stablish me according to thy promise, that I may liue, and disappoint me not of mine hope.
117 Help me, and I shall be saved; and I will meditate in your ordinances continually.
Stay thou mee, and I shall be safe, and I will delite continually in thy statutes.
118 You have brought to nothing all that depart from your ordinances; for their inward thought is unrighteous.
Thou hast troden downe all them that depart from thy statutes: for their deceit is vaine.
119 I have reckoned all the sinners of the earth as transgressors; therefore have I loved your testimonies.
Thou hast taken away all ye wicked of the earth like drosse: therefore I loue thy testimonies.
120 Penetrate my flesh with your fear; for 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; deliver me not up to them that injure me.
AIN. I haue executed iudgement and iustice: leaue me not to mine oppressours.
122 Receive your servant for good: let not the proud accuse me falsely.
Answere for thy seruant in that, which is good, and let not the proude oppresse me.
123 Mine eyes have failed 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 ordinances.
Deale with thy seruant according to thy mercie, and teache me thy statutes.
125 I am your servant; instruct me, and I shall know your testimonies.
I am thy seruant: graunt mee therefore vnderstanding, that I may knowe thy testimonies.
126 [It is] time for the Lord to work: they have utterly broken your law.
It is time for thee Lord to worke: for they haue destroyed thy Lawe.
127 Therefore have I loved your commandments more than gold, or the topaz.
Therefore loue I thy commandements aboue golde, yea, aboue most fine golde.
128 Therefore I directed myself [according] to all your commandments: I have hated every unjust way.
Therefore I esteeme all thy precepts most iust, and hate all false wayes.
129 Your testimonies are wonderful: therefore my soul has sought them out.
PE. Thy testimonies are wonderfull: therefore doeth my soule keepe them.
130 The manifestation of your words will enlighten, and instruct the simple.
The entrance into thy wordes sheweth light, and giueth vnderstanding to the simple.
131 I opened my mouth, and drew breath: for I earnestly longed after your commandments.
I opened my mouth and panted, because I loued thy commandements.
132 Look upon me and have mercy upon me, after the manner of them 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 according to 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 false accusation of men: so will I keep your commandments.
Deliuer mee from the oppression of men, and I will keepe thy precepts.
135 Cause your face to shine upon your servant: and teach me your ordinances.
Shew the light of thy countenance vpon thy seruant, and teache me thy statutes.
136 Mine eyes have been bathed in streams of water, because I kept 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 You has commanded righteousness and perfect truth, [as] your testimonies.
Thou hast commanded iustice by thy testimonies and trueth especially.
139 Your zeal has quite wasted me: because mine enemies have forgotten your words.
My zeale hath euen consumed mee, because mine enemies haue forgotten thy wordes.
140 Your word [has been] very fully tried; and your servant loves it.
Thy word is prooued most pure, and thy seruant loueth it.
141 I am young and despised: [yet] I have not forgotten your ordinances.
I am small and despised: yet do I not forget thy precepts.
142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is truth.
Thy righteousnesse is an euerlasting righteousnes, and thy Lawe is trueth.
143 Afflictions and distresses found me: [but] your commandments [were] my (meditation)
Trouble and anguish are come vpon me: yet are thy commandements my delite.
144 Your testimonies [are] an everlasting righteousness: instruct me, 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 search out your ordinances.
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 will keep your testimonies.
I called vpon thee: saue mee, and I will keepe thy testimonies.
147 I arose before the dawn, and cried: I hoped in your words.
I preuented the morning light, and cried: for I waited on thy word.
148 Mine eyes prevented the dawn, that I might meditate on your oracles.
Mine eyes preuent the night watches to meditate in thy word.
149 Hear my voice, O Lord, according to your mercy; quicken me according to your judgment.
Heare my voyce according to thy louing kindenesse: O Lord, quicken me according to thy iudgement.
150 They have drawn near who persecuted me unlawfully; and they are far removed 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 ways are truth.
Thou art neere, O Lord: for all thy commandements are true.
152 I have known of old concerning your testimonies, that you have founded them for ever.
I haue knowen long since by thy testimonies, that thou hast established them for euer.
153 Look upon mine affliction, and rescue me; for I have not forgotten your law.
RESH. Beholde mine affliction, and deliuer mee: for I haue not forgotten thy Lawe.
154 Plead my cause, and ransom me: quicken me because of your word.
Pleade my cause, and deliuer me: quicken me according vnto thy word.
155 Salvation is far from sinners: for they have not searched out your ordinances.
Saluation is farre from the wicked, because they seeke not thy statutes.
156 Your mercies, O Lord, are many: quicken me according to your judgment.
Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord: quicken me according to thy iudgements.
157 Many are they that persecute me and oppress me: [but] I have not declined from your testimonies.
My persecutours and mine oppressours are many: yet doe I not swarue from thy testimonies.
158 I saw men acting foolishly, and I pined away; for they kept not your oracles.
I saw the transgressours and was grieued, because they kept not thy worde.
159 Behold, I have loved your commandments, O Lord: quicken me in your mercy.
Consider, O Lord, how I loue thy preceptes: quicken mee according to thy louing kindenesse.
160 The beginning of your words is truth; and all the judgments of your righteousness [endure] for ever.
The beginning of thy worde is trueth, and all the iudgements of thy righteousnesse endure for euer.
161 Princes persecuted me without a cause, but my heart feared because of your words.
SCHIN. Princes haue persecuted mee without cause, but mine heart stood in awe of thy wordes.
162 I will exult because of your oracles, as one that finds much spoil.
I reioyce at thy worde, as one that findeth a great spoyle.
163 I hate and abhor unrighteousness; but I love your law.
I hate falshoode and abhorre it, but thy Lawe doe I loue.
164 Seven times in a day have I praised you because of the judgments of your righteousness.
Seuen times a day doe I praise thee, because of thy righteous iudgements.
165 Great peace have they that love your law: and there is no stumbling block to them.
They that loue thy Law, shall haue great prosperitie, and they shall haue none hurt.
166 I waited for your salvation, O Lord, and have loved your commandments.
Lord, I haue trusted in thy saluation, and haue done thy commandements.
167 My soul has kept your testimonies, and loved them exceedingly.
My soule hath kept thy testimonies: for I loue them exceedingly.
168 I have kept your commandments and your testimonies; for all my ways are before you, O Lord.
I haue kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my wayes are before thee.
169 Let my supplication come near before you, o Lord; instruct me according to your oracle.
TAV. Let my complaint come before thee, O Lord, and giue me vnderstanding, according vnto thy worde.
170 Let my petition come in before you, O Lord; deliver me according to your oracle.
Let my supplication come before thee, and deliuer me according to thy promise.
171 Let my lips utter a hymn, when you shall have taught me your ordinances.
My lippes shall speake praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
172 Let my tongue utter your oracles; for all your commandments are righteous.
My tongue shall intreate of thy word: for all thy commandements are righteous.
173 Let your hand be [prompt] to save me; for I have chosen your commandments.
Let thine hand helpe me: for I haue chosen thy precepts.
174 I have longed after your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my (meditation)
I haue longed for thy saluation, O Lord, and thy Lawe is my delite.
175 My soul shall live, and shall praise you; and your judgments shall 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 have not forgotten your commandments.
I haue gone astraye like a lost sheepe: seeke thy seruant, for I doe not forget thy commandements.
