I have recounted my ways and You answered me; Teach me Your laws. Make me understand the way of Your orders; That I might meditate on Your wonders. My being has wept from grief; Strengthen me according to Your word. Remove from me the way of falsehood, And favour me with Your Torah. I have chosen the way of truth; Your right-rulings I have held level. I have clung to Your witnesses; O יהוה, do not put me to shame! I run the way of Your commands, For You enlarge my heart. Teach me, O יהוה, the way of Your laws, And I observe it to the end. Make me understand, that I might observe Your Torah, And guard it with all my heart. Make me walk in the path of Your commands, For I have delighted in it. Incline my heart to Your witnesses, And not to own gain. Turn away my eyes from looking at falsehood, And revive me in Your way. Establish Your word to Your servant, Which leads to the fear of You. Turn away my reproach which I dread, For Your right-rulings are good. See, I have longed for Your orders; Revive me in Your righteousness. And let Your kindnesses come to me, O יהוה; Your deliverance, according to Your word, So that I answer my reprover, For I have trusted in Your word. And do not take away from my mouth The word of truth entirely, For I have waited for Your right-rulings; That I might guard Your Torah continually, Forever and ever; That I might walk in a broad place, For I have sought Your orders; That I might speak of Your witnesses before sovereigns, And not be ashamed; That I might delight myself in Your commands, Which I have loved; That I might lift up my hands to Your commands, Which I have loved; While I meditate on Your laws. Remember the word to Your servant, On which You have caused me to wait. This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word has given me life. The proud have utterly scorned me, I did not turn aside from Your Torah. I remembered Your right-rulings of old, O יהוה, And I comfort myself. Rage has seized me because of the wrong Who forsake Your Torah. Your laws have been my songs In the place of my sojournings. I have remembered Your Name in the night, O יהוה, And I guard Your Torah. This has become mine, Because I have observed Your orders. You are my portion, O יהוה; I have promised to guard Your words. I have sought Your face with all my heart; Show me favour according to Your word. I have thought upon my ways, And turned my feet to Your witnesses. I have hurried, and did not delay To guard Your commands. The cords of the wrong have surrounded me, Your Torah I have not forgotten. At midnight I rise to give thanks to You, For Your righteous right-rulings. I am a companion of all who fear You, And of those guarding Your orders. O יהוה, Your kindness has filled the earth; Teach me Your laws. You have done good to Your servant, O יהוה, According to Your word. Teach me good sense and knowledge, For I have trusted in Your commands. Before I was afflicted I myself was going astray, But now I have guarded Your word. You are good, and do good; Teach me Your laws. The proud have forged a lie against me, With all my heart I observe Your orders. Their heart has become like fat, Without feeling; I have delighted in Your Torah. It was good for me that I was afflicted, That I might learn Your laws. The Torah of Your mouth is better to me Than thousands of gold and silver pieces. bible/316/psa.119.26-72.isr98
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