Psalms 119
1 Happy they whose life is blameless, who walk by the law of the Lord.
ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
2 Happy they who keep his charges, and seek him with all their hearts;
Blessed are they who search his testimonies: that seek him with their whole heart.
3 who have done no wrong, but walk in his ways.
For they that work iniquity, have not walked in his ways.
4 You yourself have appointed your precepts to be kept with diligence.
Thou hast commanded thy commandments to be kept most diligently.
5 O to be steadily guided in the keeping of your statutes!
O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications.
6 Then unashamed shall I be, when I look towards all your commandments.
Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall look into all thy commandments.
7 I will thank you with heart unfeigned, when I learn your righteous judgments.
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned the judgments of thy justice.
8 I will observe your statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
I will keep thy justifications: O! do not thou utterly forsake me.
9 How can a young person keep their life pure? By giving heed to your word.
BETH. By what doth a young man correct his way? by observing thy words.
10 With all my heart have I sought you, let me not stray from your commandments.
With my whole heart have I sought after thee: let me not stray from thy commandments.
11 In my heart have I treasured your word, to keep from sinning against you.
Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against thee.
12 Blessed are you, O Lord; teach me your statutes.
Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy justifications.
13 With my lips have I rehearsed all the judgments of your mouth.
With my lips I have pronounced all the judgments of thy mouth.
14 I delight in the way of your charges, more than in riches of all sorts.
I have been delighted in the way of thy testimonies, as in all riches.
15 I will muse upon your precepts, and look to your paths.
I will meditate on thy commandments: and I will consider thy ways.
16 In your statutes I delight, I will not forget your word.
I will think of thy justifications: I will not forget thy words.
17 Grant that your servant may live, and I will observe your word.
GIMEL. Give bountifully to thy servant, enliven me: and I shall keep thy words.
18 Open my eyes, that I see wondrous things out of your law.
Open thou my eyes: and I will consider the wondrous things of thy law.
19 But a guest am I on the earth: hide not your commandments from me.
I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
20 My heart is crushed with longing for your ordinances, at all times.
My soul hath coveted to long for thy justifications, at all times.
21 You rebuke the proud, the accursed, who wander from your commandments.
Thou hast rebuked the proud: they are cursed who decline from thy commandments.
22 Roll away from me scorn and contempt, for I have observed your charges.
Remove from reproach and contempt: because I have sought after thy testimonies.
23 Though princes sit plotting against me, your servant will muse on your statutes.
For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications.
24 Your charges are my delight, they are my counsellors.
For thy testimonies are my (meditation) and thy justifications my counsel.
25 I lie grovelling in the dust; revive me, as you have promised.
DALETH. My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according to thy word.
26 I told of my ways, you made answer; teach me your statutes.
I have declared my ways, and thou hast heard me: teach me thy justifications.
27 Grant me insight into your precepts, and I will muse on your wonders.
Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: and I shall be exercised in thy wondrous works.
28 I am overcome with sorrow; raise me up, as you have promised.
My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: strengthen thou me in thy words.
29 Put the way of falsehood from me, and graciously grant me your law.
Remove from me the way of iniquity: and out of thy law have mercy on me.
30 I have chosen the way of fidelity, your ordinances I long for.
I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments I have not forgotten.
31 I hold fast to your charges: O put me not, Lord, to shame.
I have stuck to thy testimonies, O Lord: put me not to shame.
32 I will run in the way of your commandments, for you give me room of heart.
I have run the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge my heart.
33 Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes, and I will keep it to the end,
HE. Set before me for a law the way of thy justifications, O Lord: and I will always seek after it.
34 instruct me to keep your law, and I will observe it with all my heart.
Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; and I will keep it with my whole heart.
35 Guide me in the path of your commandments, for therein do I delight.
Lead me into the path of thy commandments; for this same I have desired.
36 Incline my heart to your charges, and not to greed of gain.
Incline my heart into thy testimonies and not to covetousness.
37 Turn away my eyes from vain sights, revive me by your word.
Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me in thy way.
38 Confirm to your servant the promise which is given to those who fear you.
Establish thy word to thy servant, in thy fear.
39 Remove the reproach which I dread, because your judgments are good.
Turn away my reproach, which I have apprehended: for thy judgments are delightful.
40 Behold, I long for your precepts. Quicken me in your righteousness.
Behold I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy justice.
41 Visit me, Lord, with your love and salvation, as you have promised.
VAU. Let thy mercy also come upon me, O Lord: thy salvation according to thy word.
42 So shall I answer my slanderers, for my trust is in your word.
So shall I answer them that reproach me in any thing; that I have trusted in thy words.
43 Snatch not from my mouth the word of truth, for in your judgments I hope.
And take not thou the word of truth utterly out of my mouth: for in thy words have I hoped exceedingly.
44 I will keep your law continually, for ever and evermore.
So shall I always keep thy law, for ever and ever.
45 So shall I walk in wide spaces, for I give my mind to your precepts.
And I walked at large: because I have sought after thy commandments.
46 I will speak of your charge before kings, and will not be ashamed thereof.
And I spoke of thy testimonies before kings: and I was not ashamed.
47 Your commandments are my delight, I love them exceedingly.
I meditated also on thy commandments, which I loved.
48 I will lift up my hands to your commandments, and muse upon your statutes.
And I lifted up my hands to thy commandments, which I loved: and I was exercised in thy justifications.
49 Remember your word to your servant, on which you have made me to hope.
ZAIN. Be thou mindful of thy word to thy servant, in which thou hast given me hope.
50 This is my comfort in trouble, that your word gives life to me.
This hath comforted me in my humiliation: because thy word hath enlivened me.
51 The arrogant utterly scorn me, but I have not declined from your law.
The proud did iniquitously altogether: but I declined not from thy law.
52 When I think of your judgments of old, O Lord, I take to me comfort.
I remembered, O Lord, thy judgments of old: and I was comforted.
53 I am seized with glowing anger at the wicked who forsake your law.
A fainting hath taken hold of me, because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
54 Your statutes have been to me songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Thy justifications were the subject of my song, in the place of my pilgrimage.
55 I remember your name in the night, O Lord and observe your law.
In the night I have remembered thy name, O Lord: and have kept thy law.
56 My lot has been this, that I have kept your precepts.
This happened to me: because I sought after thy justifications.
57 My portion are you, O Lord: I have promised to keep your words.
HETH. O Lord, my portion, I have said, I would keep the law.
58 I entreat you with all my heart; grant me your promised favor.
I entreated thy face with all my heart: have mercy on me according to thy word.
59 I have thought upon my ways, and turned my feet to your charges.
I have thought on my ways: and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
60 I hasted and tarried not to give heed to your commandments.
I am ready, and am not troubled: that I may keep thy commandments.
61 Though the godless have wound their cords round me, I have not forgotten your law.
The cords of the wicked have encompassed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
62 At midnight I rise to praise you because of your righteous judgments.
I rose at midnight to give praise to thee; for the judgments of thy justification.
63 With all those who fear you I company, aid with those who observe your precepts.
I am a partaker with all them that fear thee, and that keep thy commandments.
64 The earth, Lord, is full of your kindness; teach me your Statutes.
The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy justifications.
65 Well have you dealt with your servant, as you have promised, O Lord.
TETH. Thou hast done well with thy servant, O Lord, according to thy word.
66 Teach me discretion and knowledge, for I have believed your commandments.
Teach me goodness and discipline and knowledge; for I have believed thy commandments.
67 Till trouble came I was a wanderer, but now I observe your word.
Before I was humbled I offended; therefore have I kept thy word.
68 You are good and do good; teach me your statutes.
Thou art good; and in thy goodness teach me thy justifications.
69 The proud have forged lies against me, but I keep your precepts with all my heart.
The iniquity of the proud hath been multiplied over me: but I will seek thy commandments with my whole heart.
70 Their heart is gross like fat, but I delight in your law.
Their heart is curdled like milk: but I have meditated on thy law.
71 It was good for me to be humbled, that I should learn your statutes.
It is good for me that thou hast humbled me, that I may learn thy justifications.
72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of silver and gold.
The law of thy mouth is good to me, above thousands of gold and silver.
73 Your hands have made me and fashioned me; make me wise to learn your commandments.
JOD. Thy hands have made me and formed me: give me understanding, and I will learn thy commandments.
74 Those who fear you shall see me with joy, for in your word have I hoped.
They that fear thee shall see me, and shall be glad: because I have greatly hoped in thy words.
75 I know, O Lord, that your judgments are right, and in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are equity: and in thy truth thou hast humbled me.
76 Let your love be a comfort to me, for so have you promised your servant.
O! let thy mercy be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.
77 Visit me with your quickening pity, for your law is my delight.
Let thy tender mercies come unto me, and I shall live: for thy law is my (meditation)
78 Put the proud to shame, who have wronged me falsely: I will muse on your precepts.
Let the proud be ashamed, because they have done unjustly towards me: but I will be employed in thy commandments.
79 Let those turn to me who fear you, that they may learn your charges.
Let them that fear thee turn to me and they that know thy testimonies.
80 Let my heart be sound in your statutes, that I may not be put to shame.
Let my heart be undefiled in thy justifications, that I may not be confounded.
81 My long for you to rescue me, I put my hope in your word.
CAPH. My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: and in thy word I have very much hoped.
82 My eyes pine away for your promise: saying, “When will you comfort me?”
My eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort me?
83 Though shrivelled like wine-skin in smoke, your statutes I have not forgotten.
For I am become like a bottle in the frost: I have not forgotten thy justifications.
84 How few are the days of your servant! When will you judge those who harass me?
How many are the days of thy servant: when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
85 Proud people have dug for me pits people who do not conform to your law.
The wicked have told me fables: but not as thy law.
86 All your commandments are trusty. With falsehood they harass me: help me.
All thy statutes are truth: they have persecuted me unjustly, do thou help me.
87 They had nearly made an end of me, yet I did not forget your precepts.
They had almost made an end of me upon earth: but I have not forsaken thy commandments.
88 Spare me in your kindness, and I will observe the charge of your mouth.
Quicken thou me according to thy mercy: and I shall keep the testimonies of thy mouth.
89 Forever, O Lord, is your word fixed firmly in the heavens.
LAMED. For ever, O Lord, thy word standeth firm in heaven.
90 Your truth endures age after age; it is established on earth, and it stands.
Thy truth unto all generations: thou hast founded the earth, and it continueth.
91 By your appointment they stand this day, for all are your servants.
By thy ordinance the day goeth on: for all things serve thee.
92 Had not your law been my joy, in my misery then had I perished.
Unless thy law had been my (meditation) I had then perhaps perished in my abjection.
93 I will never forget your precepts, for through them you have put life in me.
Thy justifications I will never forget: for by them thou hast given me life.
94 I am yours, O save me, for I give my mind to your precepts.
I am thine, save thou me: for I have sought thy justifications.
95 The wicked lay wait to destroy me, but I give heed to your charge.
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I have understood thy testimonies.
96 I have seen a limit to all things: but your commandment is spacious exceedingly.
I have seen an end to all persecution: thy commandment is exceeding broad.
97 O how I love your law! All the day long I muse on it.
MEM. O how have I loved thy law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the day.
98 Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies: for it is mine forever.
Through thy commandment, thou hast made me wiser than my enemies: for it is ever with me.
99 I am prudent above all my teachers, for your charges are my (meditation)
I have understood more than all my teachers: because thy testimonies are my (meditation)
100 I have insight more than the aged, because I observe your precepts.
I have had understanding above ancients: because I have sought thy commandments.
101 I refrain my foot from all wicked ways, that I may keep your word.
I have restrained my feet from every evil way: that I may keep thy words.
102 I turn not aside from your judgments, for you yourself are my teacher.
I have not declined from thy judgments, because thou hast set me a law.
103 How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
How sweet are thy words to my palate! more than honey to my mouth.
104 Insight I win through your precepts, therefore every false way I hate.
By thy commandments I have had understanding: therefore have I hated every way of iniquity.
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.
NUN. Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths.
106 I have sworn an oath, and will keep it, to observe your righteous judgments.
I have sworn and am determined to keep the judgments of thy justice.
107 I am afflicted sorely: revive me, O Lord, as you said.
I have been humbled, O Lord, exceedingly: quicken thou me according to thy word.
108 Accept, Lord, my willing praise, and teach me your judgments.
The free offerings of my mouth make acceptable, O Lord: and teach me thy judgments.
109 My life is in ceaseless peril; but I do not forget your law.
My soul is continually in my hands: and I have not forgotten thy law.
110 The wicked set traps for me, yet I do not stray from your precepts.
Sinners have laid a snare for me: but I have not erred from thy precepts.
111 In your charges are my everlasting inheritance, they are the joy of my heart.
I have purchased thy testimonies for an inheritance for ever: because they are a joy to my heart.
112 I am resolved to perform your statutes forever, to the utmost.
I have inclined my heart to do thy justifications for ever, for the reward.
113 I hate people of divided heart, but your law do I love.
SAMECH. I have hated the unjust: and have loved thy law.
114 You are my shelter and shield: in your word do I hope.
Thou art my helper and my protector: and in thy word I have greatly hoped.
115 Begone, you wicked people, I will keep the commands of my God.
Depart from me, ye malignant: and I will search the commandments of my God.
116 Uphold me and spare me, as you have promised: O disappoint me not.
Uphold me according to thy word, and I shall live: and let me not be confounded in my expectation.
117 Hold me up, and I shall be saved: and your statutes shall be my unceasing delight.
Help me, and I shall be saved: and I will meditate always on thy justifications.
118 All who swerve from your statutes you spurn: their cunning is in vain.
Thou hast despised all them that fall off from thy judgments; for their thought is unjust.
119 All the wicked of earth you count as dross, therefore I love your charges.
I have accounted all the sinners of the earth prevaricators: therefore have I loved thy testimonies.
120 My flesh, for fear of you, shudders, and I stand in awe of your judgments.
Pierce thou my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy judgments.
121 Justice and right have I practised, do not leave me to my oppressors.
AIN. I have done judgment and justice: give me not up to them that slander me.
122 Be your servant’s surety for good, let not the proud oppress me.
Uphold thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me.
123 My eyes pine for your salvation, and for your righteous promise.
My eyes have fainted after thy salvation: and for the word of thy justice.
124 Deal in your love with your servant, and teach me your statutes.
Deal with thy servant according to thy mercy: and teach me thy justifications.
125 Your servant am I; instruct me, that I may know your charges.
I am thy servant: give me understanding that I may know thy testimonies.
126 It is time for the Lord to act: they have violated your law.
It is time, O Lord, to do: they have dissipated thy law.
127 Therefore I love your commandments above gold, above fine gold.
Therefore have I loved thy commandments above gold and the topaz.
128 So by all your precepts I guide me, and every false way I hate.
Therefore was I directed to all thy commandments: I have hated all wicked ways.
129 Your decrees are wonderful, gladly I keep them.
PHE. Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore my soul hath sought them.
130 When your word is unfolded, light breaks; it imparts to the simple wisdom.
The declaration of thy words giveth light: and giveth understanding to little ones.
131 With open mouth I pant with longing for your commandments.
I opened my mouth and panted: because I longed for thy commandments.
132 Turn to me with your favor, as is just to those who love you.
Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me, according to the judgment of them that love thy name.
133 Steady my steps by your word, so that sin have no power over me.
Direct my steps according to thy word: and let no iniquity have dominion over me.
134 Set me free from those who oppress me, and I shall observe your precepts.
Redeem me from the calumnies of men: that I may keep thy commandments.
135 Shine with your face on your servant, and teach me your statutes.
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: and teach me thy justifications.
136 My eyes run down with rills of water, because your law is not kept.
My eyes have sent forth springs of water: because they have not kept thy law.
137 Righteous are you, O Lord, and right are your ordinances.
SADE. Thou art just, O Lord: and thy judgment is right.
138 The laws you has ordered are just, and trusty exceedingly.
Thou hast commanded justice thy testimonies: and thy truth exceedingly.
139 My jealousy has undone me, that my foes have forgotten your words.
My zeal hath made me pine away: because my enemies forgot thy words.
140 Your word has been tested well; and your servant loves it.
Thy word is exceedingly refined: and thy servant hath loved it.
141 I am little and held in contempt, but your precepts I have not forgotten.
I am very young and despised; but I forgot not thy justifications.
142 Just is your justice forever, and trusty is your law.
Thy justice is justice for ever: and thy law is the truth.
143 Stress and strain are upon me, but your commandments are my delight.
Trouble and anguish have found me: thy commandments are my (meditation)
144 Right are your charges forever, instruct me that I may live.
Thy testimonies are justice for ever: give me understanding, and I shall live.
145 With my whole heart I cry; O answer me. I would keep your statutes, O Lord.
COPH. I cried with my whole heart, hear me, O Lord: I will seek thy justifications.
146 I cry to you: O save me, and I will observe your charges.
I cried unto thee, save me: that I may keep thy commandments.
147 Ere the dawn I cry for your help: in your word do I hope.
I prevented the dawning of the day, and cried: because in thy words I very much hoped.
148 Awake I meet the night-watches, to muse upon your sayings.
My eyes to thee have prevented the morning: that I might meditate on thy words.
149 Hear my voice in your kindness: O Lord, by your judgments revive me.
Hear thou my voice, O Lord, according to thy mercy: and quicken me according to thy mercy.
150 Near me are wicked tormentors, who are far from thoughts of your law;
They that persecute me have drawn nigh to iniquity; but they are gone far off from the law.
151 but near, too, are you, O Lord, and all your commandments are trusty.
Thou art near, O Lord: and all thy ways are truth.
152 Long have I known from your charges that you have founded them for all time.
I have known from the beginning concerning thy testimonies: that thou hast founded them for ever.
153 Look on my misery, and rescue me; for I do not forget your law.
RES. See my humiliation and deliver me: for I have not forgotten the law.
154 Defend my cause and redeem me: revive me, as you have promised.
Judge my judgment and redeem me: quicken thou me for thy word’s sake.
155 Salvation is far from the wicked, for their mind is not in your statutes.
Salvation is far from sinners; because they have not sought thy justifications.
156 Great is your pity, O Lord: Revive me, as you have ordained.
Many, O Lord, are thy mercies: quicken me according to thy judgment.
157 My foes and tormentors are many, but I have not declined from your charges.
Many are they that persecute me, and afflict me; but I have not declined from thy testimonies.
158 I behold the traitors with loathing, for they do not observe your word.
I beheld the transgressors, and I pined away; because they kept not thy word.
159 Behold how I love your precepts: revive me, O Lord!, in your kindness.
Behold I have loved thy commandments, O Lord; quicken me thou in thy mercy.
160 The sum of your word is truth, all your laws are just and eternal.
The beginning of thy words is truth: all the judgments of thy justice are for ever.
161 Princes have harassed me wantonly: but my heart stands in awe of your word.
SIN. Princes have persecuted me without cause: and my heart hath been in awe of thy words.
162 Over your word I rejoice as one who finds great spoil.
I will rejoice at thy words, as one that hath found great spoil.
163 Falsehood I hate and abhor, but your law do I love.
I have hated and abhorred iniquity; but I have loved thy law.
164 Seven times a day do I praise you because of your righteous judgments.
Seven times a day I have given praise to thee, for the judgments of thy justice.
165 Right well do they fare who love your law: they go on their way without stumbling.
Much peace have they that love thy law, and to them there is no stumbling block.
166 I hope for your salvation; O Lord I do your commandments.
I looked to thy salvation, O Lord: and I loved thy commandments.
167 I observe your charges: I love them greatly.
My soul hath kept thy testimonies: and hath loved them exceedingly.
168 I observe your precepts and charges: all my ways are before you.
I have kept thy commandments and thy testimonies: because all my ways are in thy sight.
169 Let my cry come before you, O Lord: give me insight, as you have promised.
TAU. Let my supplication, O Lord, come near in thy sight: give me understanding according to thy word.
170 Let my prayer enter into your presence: deliver me, as you have said.
Let my request come in before thee; deliver thou me according to thy word.
171 My lips shall be fountains of praise, that you teach me your statutes.
My lips shall utter a hymn, when thou shalt teach me thy justifications.
172 My tongue shall sing of your word, for all your commandments are right.
My tongue shall pronounce thy word: because all thy commandments are justice.
173 Let your hand be ready to help me, for your precepts have been my choice.
Let thy hand be with me to save me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
174 I long, Lord, for your salvation, and your law is my delight.
I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my (meditation)
175 Revive me that I may praise you, and let your precepts help me.
My soul shall live and shall praise thee: and thy judgments shall help me.
176 I have strayed like a wandering sheep seek your servant, because I do not forget your commandments.
I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: seek thy servant, because I have not forgotten thy commandments.
