Psalms 119
1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
Alleluia. Blessed are the blameless in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
Blessed are they that search out his testimonies: they will diligently seek him with the whole heart.
3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
For they that work iniquity have not walked in his ways.
4 You have commanded us to keep your precepts diligently.
Thou hast commanded [us] diligently to keep thy precepts.
5 O that my ways were directed to keep your statutes!
O that my ways were directed to keep thine ordinances.
6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all your commandments.
Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all thy commandments.
7 I will praise you with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned your righteous judgments.
I will give thee thanks with uprightness of heart, when I have learnt the judgments of thy righteousness.
8 I will keep your statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
I will keep thine ordinances: O forsake me not greatly.
9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to your word.
Wherewith shall a young man direct his way? by keeping thy words.
10 With my whole heart have I sought you: O let me not wander from your commandments.
With my whole heart have I diligently sought thee: cast me not away from thy commandments.
11 Your word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against you.
I have hidden thine oracles in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.
12 Blessed are you, O LORD: teach me your statutes.
Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thine ordinances.
13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of your mouth.
With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
14 I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.
I have delighted in the way of thy testimonies, [as much] as in all riches.
15 I will meditate in your precepts, and have respect unto your ways.
I will meditate on thy commandments, and consider thy ways.
16 I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word.
I will meditate on thine ordinances: I will not forget thy words.
17 Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live, and keep your word.
Render a recompense to thy servant: [so] shall I live, and keep thy words.
18 Open you mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
Unveil thou mine eyes, and I shall perceive wondrous things of thy law.
19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not your commandments from me.
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
20 My soul breaks for the longing that it has unto your judgments at all times.
My soul has longed exceedingly for thy judgments at all times.
21 You have rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do go astray from your commandments.
Thou has rebuked the proud: cursed are they that turn aside from thy commandments.
22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept your testimonies.
Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have sought out thy testimonies.
23 Princes also did sit and speak against me: but your servant did meditate in your statutes.
For princes sat and spoke against me: but thy servant was meditating on thine ordinances.
24 Your testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
For thy testimonies are my (meditation) and thine ordinances are my counsellors.
25 My soul cleaves unto the dust: you restore life in me according to your word.
My soul has cleaved to the ground; quicken thou me according to thy word.
26 I have declared my ways, and you heard me: teach me your statutes.
I declared my ways, and thou didst hear me: teach me thine ordinances.
27 Make me to understand the way of your precepts: so shall I talk of your wondrous works.
Instruct me in the way of thine ordinances; and I will meditate on thy wondrous works.
28 My soul melts for heaviness: strengthen you me according unto your word.
My soul has slumbered for sorrow; strengthen thou me with thy words.
29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me your law graciously.
Remove from me the way of iniquity; and be merciful to me by thy law.
30 I have chosen the way of truth: your judgments have I laid before me.
I have chosen the way of truth; and have not forgotten thy judgments.
31 I have stuck unto your testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.
I have cleaved to thy testimonies, O Lord; put me not to shame.
32 I will run the way of your commandments, when you shall enlarge my heart.
I ran the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge my heart.
33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of your statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
Teach me, O Lord, the way of thine ordinances, and I will seek it out continually.
34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep your law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Instruct me, and I will search out thy law, and will keep it with my whole heart.
35 Make me to go in the path of your commandments; for therein do I delight.
Guide me in the path of thy commandments; for I have delighted in it.
36 Incline my heart unto your testimonies, and not to covetousness.
Incline mine heart to thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and you restore life in me in your way.
Turn away mine eyes that I may not behold vanity: quicken thou me in thy way.
38 Establish your word unto your servant, who is devoted to your fear.
Confirm thine oracle to thy servant, that he may fear thee.
39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for your judgments are good.
Take away my reproach which I have feared: for thy judgments are good.
40 Behold, I have longed after your precepts: restore life in me in your righteousness.
Behold, I have desired thy commandments: quicken me in thy righteousness.
41 Let your mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even your salvation, according to your word.
And let thy mercy come upon me, O Lord; [even] thy salvation, according to thy word.
42 So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproaches me: for I trust in your word.
And [so] I shall render an answer to them that reproach me: for I have trusted in thy words.
43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in your judgments.
And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments. So shall I keep thy law continually, for ever and ever.
44 So shall I keep your law continually for ever and ever.
45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek your precepts.
I walked also at large: for I sought out thy commandments.
46 I will speak of your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
And I spoke of thy testimonies before kings, and was not ashamed.
47 And I will delight myself in your commandments, which I have loved.
And I meditated on thy commandments, which I loved exceedingly.
48 My hands also will I lift up unto your commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in your statutes.
And I lifted up my hands to thy commandments which I loved; and I meditated in thine ordinances.
49 Remember the word unto your servant, upon which you have caused me to hope.
Remember thy words to thy servant, wherein thou hast made me hope.
50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has quickened me.
This has comforted me in mine affliction: for thine oracle has quickened me.
51 The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from your law.
The proud have transgressed exceedingly; but I swerved not from thy law.
52 I remembered your judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.
I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord; and was comforted.
53 Horror has taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake your law.
Despair took hold upon me, because of the sinners who forsake thy law.
54 Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Thine ordinances were my songs in the place of my sojourning.
55 I have remembered your name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept your law.
I remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night, and kept thy law.
56 This I had, because I kept your precepts.
This I had, because I diligently sought thine ordinances.
57 You are my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep your words.
Thou art my portion, O Lord: I said that I would keep thy law.
58 I implored your favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to your word.
I besought thy favour with my whole heart: have mercy upon me according to thy word.
59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto your testimonies.
I thought on thy ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies.
60 I made haste, and delayed not to keep your commandments.
I prepared myself, (and was not terrified, ) to keep thy commandments.
61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten your law.
The snares of sinners entangled me: but I forgot not thy law.
62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto you because of your righteous judgments.
At midnight I arose, to give thanks to thee for the judgments of thy righteousness.
63 I am a companion of all them that fear you, and of them that keep your precepts.
I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy commandments.
64 The earth, O LORD, is full of your mercy: teach me your statutes.
O Lord, the earth is full of thy mercy: teach me thine ordinances.
65 You have dealt well with your servant, O LORD, according unto your word.
Thou hast wrought kindly with thy servant, o Lord, according to thy word.
66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed your commandments.
Teach me kindness, and instruction, and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept your word.
Before I was afflicted, I transgressed; therefore have I kept thy word.
68 You are good, and do good; teach me your statutes.
Good art thou, O Lord; therefore in thy goodness teach me thine ordinances.
69 The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep your precepts with my whole heart.
The injustice of the proud has been multiplied against me: but I will search out thy commandments with all my heart.
70 Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in your law.
Their heart has been curdled like milk; but I have meditated on thy law.
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn your statutes.
[It is] good for me that thou hast afflicted me; that I might learn thine ordinances.
72 The law of your mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
The law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
73 Your hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me: instruct me, that I may learn thy commandments.
74 They that fear you will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in your word.
They that fear thee will see me and rejoice: for I have hoped in thy words.
75 I know, O LORD, that your judgments are right, and that you in faithfulness have afflicted me.
I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are righteousness, and [that] thou in truthfulness hast afflicted me.
76 Let, I pray you, your merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to your word unto your servant.
Let, I pray thee, thy mercy be to comfort me, according to thy word to thy servant.
77 Let your tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for your law is my delight.
Let thy compassions come to me, that I may live: for thy law is my (meditation)
78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in your precepts.
Let the proud be ashamed; for they transgressed against me unjustly: but I will meditate in thy commandments.
79 Let those that fear you turn unto me, and those that have known your testimonies.
Let those that fear thee, and those that know thy testimonies, turn to me.
80 Let my heart be sound in your statutes; that I be not ashamed.
Let mine heart be blameless in thine ordinances, that I may not be ashamed.
81 My soul faints for your salvation: but I hope in your word.
My soul faints for thy salvation: I have hoped in thy words.
82 Mine eyes fail for your word, saying, When will you comfort me?
Mine eyes failed [in waiting] for thy word, 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 become as a bottle in the frost: [yet] I have not forgotten thine ordinances.
84 How many are the days of your servant? when will you execute judgment on them that persecute me?
How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment for me on them that persecute me?
85 The proud have dug pits for me, which are not after your law.
Transgressors told me [idle tales]; but not according to thy law, O Lord.
86 All your commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help you me.
All thy commandments are truth; they persecuted me unjustly; help thou me.
87 They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not your precepts.
They nearly made an end of me in the earth; but I forsook not thy commandments.
88 Restore life in me after your loving kindness; so shall I keep the testimony of your mouth.
Quicken me according to thy mercy; so shall I keep the testimonies of thy mouth.
89 For ever, O LORD, your word is settled in heaven.
Thy word, O Lord, abides in heaven for ever.
90 Your faithfulness is unto all generations: you have established the earth, and it abides.
Thy truth [endures] to all generations; thou hast founded the earth, and it abides.
91 They continue this day according to your ordinances: for all are your servants.
The day continues by thy arrangement; for all things are thy servants.
92 Unless your law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
Were it not that thy law is my (meditation) then I should have perished in mine affliction.
93 I will never forget your precepts: for with them you have quickened me.
I will never forget thine ordinances; for with them thou hast quickened me.
94 I am yours, save me: for I have sought your precepts.
I am thine, save me; for I have sought out thine ordinances.
95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider your testimonies.
Sinners laid wait for me to destroy me; [but] I understood thy testimonies.
96 I have seen an end of all perfection: but your commandment is exceeding broad.
have seen an end of all perfection; [but] thy commandment is very broad.
97 O how I love your law! it is my meditation all the day.
How I have loved thy law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the day.
98 You through your commandments have made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
Thou hast made me wiser than mine enemies [in] thy commandment; for it is mine for ever.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for your testimonies are my (meditation)
I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my medication.
100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep your precepts.
I understand more that the aged; because I have sought out thy commandments.
101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep your word.
I have kept back my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy words.
102 I have not departed from your judgments: for you have taught me.
I have not declined from thy judgments; for thou hast instructed me.
103 How sweet are your words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
How sweet are thine oracles to my throat! more so than honey to my mouth!
104 Through your precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
I gain understanding by thy commandments: therefore I have hated every way of unrighteousness.
105 Your word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Thy law is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths.
106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep your righteous judgments.
I have sworn and determined to keep the judgments of thy righteousness.
107 I am afflicted very much: restore life in me, O LORD, according unto your word.
I have been very greatly afflicted, O Lord: quicken me, according to thy word.
108 Accept, I plead to you, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me your judgments.
Accept, I pray thee, O Lord, the freewill-offerings of my mouth, and teach me thy judgments.
109 My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget your law.
My soul is continually in thine hands; and I have not forgotten thy law.
110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from your precepts.
Sinners spread a snare for me; but I erred not from thy commandments.
111 Your testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
I have inherited thy testimonies for ever; for they are the joy of my heart.
112 I have inclined mine heart to perform your statutes always, even unto the end.
I have inclined my heart to perform thine ordinances for ever, in return [for thy mercies].
113 I hate vain thoughts: but your law do I love.
I have hated transgressors; but I have loved thy law.
114 You are my hiding place and my shield: I hope in your word.
Thou art my helper and my supporter; I have hoped in thy words.
115 Depart from me, all of you evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
Depart from me, ye evil-doers; for I will search out the commandments of my God.
116 Uphold me according unto your word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
Uphold me according to thy word, and quicken me; and make me not ashamed of my expectation.
117 Hold you me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto your statutes continually.
Help me, and I shall be saved; and I will meditate in thine ordinances continually.
118 You have trodden down all them that go astray from your statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
Thou hast brought to nought all that depart from thine ordinances; for their inward thought is unrighteous.
119 You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love your testimonies.
I have reckoned all the sinners of the earth as transgressors; therefore have I loved thy testimonies.
120 My flesh trembles for fear of you; and I am afraid of your judgments.
Penetrate my flesh with thy fear; for I am afraid of thy judgments.
121 I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
I have done judgment and justice; deliver me not up to them that injure me.
122 Be guarantor for your servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
Receive thy servant for good: let not the proud accuse me falsely.
123 Mine eyes fail for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.
Mine eyes have failed for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
124 Deal with your servant according unto your mercy, and teach me your statutes.
Deal with thy servant according to thy mercy, and teach me thine ordinances.
125 I am your servant; give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.
I am thy servant; instruct me, and I shall know thy testimonies.
126 It is time for you, LORD, to work: for they have made void your law.
[It is] time for the Lord to work: they have utterly broken thy law.
127 Therefore I love your commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
Therefore have I loved thy commandments more than gold, or the topaz.
128 Therefore I esteem all your precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
Therefore I directed myself [according] to all thy commandments: I have hated every unjust way.
129 Your testimonies are wonderful: therefore does my soul keep them.
Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore my soul has sought them out.
130 The entrance of your words gives light; it gives understanding unto the simple.
The manifestation of thy words will enlighten, and instruct the simple.
131 I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for your commandments.
I opened my mouth, and drew breath: for I earnestly longed after thy commandments.
132 Look you upon me, and be merciful unto me, as you use to do unto those that love your name.
Look upon me and have mercy upon me, after the manner of them that love thy name.
133 Order my steps in your word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Order my steps according to thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep your precepts.
Deliver me from the false accusation of men: so will I keep thy commandments.
135 Make your face to shine upon your servant; and teach me your statutes.
Cause thy face to shine upon thy servant: and teach me thine ordinances.
136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not your law.
Mine eyes have been bathed in streams of water, because I kept not thy law.
137 Righteous are you, O LORD, and upright are your judgments.
Righteous art thou, O Lord, and upright are thy judgments.
138 Your testimonies that you have commanded are righteous and very faithful.
Thou has commanded righteousness and perfect truth, [as] thy testimonies.
139 My zeal has consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten your words.
Thy zeal has quite wasted me: because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
140 Your word is very pure: therefore your servant loves it.
Thy word [has been] very fully tried; and thy servant loves it.
141 I am small and despised: yet do not I forget your precepts.
I am young and despised: [yet] I have not forgotten thine ordinances.
142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is the truth.
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is truth.
143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet your commandments are my delights.
Afflictions and distresses found me: [but] thy commandments [were] my (meditation)
144 The righteousness of your testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
Thy testimonies [are] an everlasting righteousness: instruct me, and I shall live.
145 I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep your statutes.
I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord: I will search out thine ordinances.
146 I cried unto you; save me, and I shall keep your testimonies.
I cried to thee; save me, and I will keep thy testimonies.
147 I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in your word.
I arose before the dawn, and cried: I hoped in thy words.
148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in your word.
Mine eyes prevented the dawn, that I might meditate on thine oracles.
149 Hear my voice according unto your loving kindness: O LORD, restore life in me according to your judgment.
Hear my voice, O Lord, according to thy mercy; quicken me according to thy judgment.
150 They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from your law.
They have drawn nigh who persecuted me unlawfully; and they are far removed from thy law.
151 You are near, O LORD; and all your commandments are truth.
Thou art near, O Lord; and all thy ways are truth.
152 Concerning your testimonies, I have known of old that you have founded them for ever.
I have known of old concerning thy testimonies, that thou hast founded them for ever.
153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget your law.
Look upon mine affliction, and rescue me; for I have not forgotten thy law.
154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: restore life in me according to your word.
Plead my cause, and ransom me: quicken me because of thy word.
155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not your statutes.
Salvation is far from sinners: for they have not searched out thine ordinances.
156 Great are your tender mercies, O LORD: restore life in me according to your judgments.
Thy mercies, O Lord, are many: quicken me according to thy judgment.
157 Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from your testimonies.
Many are they that persecute me and oppress me: [but] I have not declined from thy testimonies.
158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not your word.
I beheld men acting foolishly, and I pined away; for they kept not thine oracles.
159 Consider how I love your precepts: restore life in me, O LORD, according to your loving kindness.
Behold, I have loved thy commandments, O Lord: quicken me in thy mercy.
160 Your word is true from the beginning: and every one of your righteous judgments endures for ever.
The beginning of thy words is truth; and all the judgments of thy righteousness [endure] for ever.
161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart stands in awe of your word.
Princes persecuted me without a cause, but my heart feared because of thy words.
162 I rejoice at your word, as one that finds great spoil.
I will exult because of thine oracles, as one that finds much spoil.
163 I hate and detest lying: but your law do I love.
I hate and abhor unrighteousness; but I love thy law.
164 Seven times a day do I praise you because of your righteous judgments.
Seven times in a day have I praised thee because of the judgments of thy righteousness.
165 Great peace have they which love your law: and nothing shall offend them.
Great peace have they that love thy law: and there is no stumbling-block to them.
166 LORD, I have hoped for your salvation, and done your commandments.
I waited for thy salvation, O Lord, and have loved thy commandments.
167 My soul has kept your testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
My soul has kept thy testimonies, and loved them exceedingly.
168 I have kept your precepts and your testimonies: for all my ways are before you.
I have kept thy commandments and thy testimonies; for all my ways are before thee, O Lord.
169 Let my cry come near before you, O LORD: give me understanding according to your word.
Let my supplication come near before thee, o Lord; instruct me according to thine oracle.
170 Let my supplication come before you: deliver me according to your word.
Let my petition come in before thee, O Lord; deliver me according to thine oracle.
171 My lips shall utter praise, when you have taught me your statutes.
Let my lips utter a hymn, when thou shalt have taught me thine ordinances.
172 My tongue shall speak of your word: for all your commandments are righteousness.
Let my tongue utter thine oracles; for all thy commandments are righteous.
173 Let your hand help me; for I have chosen your precepts.
Let thine hand be [prompt] to save me; for I have chosen thy commandments.
174 I have longed for your salvation, O LORD; and your law is my delight.
I have longed after thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my (meditation)
175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise you; and let your judgments help me.
My soul shall live, and shall praise thee; and thy judgments shall help me.
176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant; for I do not forget your commandments.
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I have not forgotten thy commandments.
