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