Unto times age-abiding, will I not forget thy precepts, For, by them, hast thou given me life.

From thy regulations, have I not turned aside, for, thou, hast directed me.

My life, is in my hand continually, Yet, thy law, have I not forgotten.

The lawless have set a snare for me, Yet, from thy precepts, have I not strayed.

Uphold me according to thy word, that I may live, and do not shame me out of my hope!

[AYIN] I have done justice and righteousness, - Do not leave me to mine oppressors.

Be thou surety for thy servant for good, Let not insolent men oppress me.

Streams of water, have run down mine eyes, because men have not kept thy law.

Small, am I, and despised, Thy precepts, have I not forgotten.

Mine eyes forestalled the night-watches, To meditate in thy word.

[RESH] Behold mine affliction, and rescue me, For, thy law, have I not forgotten.

Far from the lawless, is salvation, For, thy statutes, have they not sought.

Many, are my persecutors and mine adversaries, From thy testimonies, have I not swerved.

I have seen traitors, and felt loathing, Because, thy word, they kept not.

I have strayed like a wandering sheep, O seek thy servant, For, thy commandments, have I not forgotten.

May he not suffer thy foot, to slip, May thy keeper, not slumber!

By day, the sun, shall not smite, nor, the moon, by night.

If it had not been, Yahweh, who was on our side, oh might Israel say:

Blessed, be Yahweh, who gave us not as prey to their teeth.

They who trust in Yahweh, are like Mount Zion, which shall not be shaken, Age-abidingly, shall it remain.

For the sceptre of lawlessness shall not remain over the allotment of the righteous, - lest the righteous put forth - unto perversity - their hands.

If, Yahweh, build not the house, in vain, have the builders of it toiled thereon, If, Yahweh, watch not the city, in vain, hath the watchman kept awake:

How happy the man who hath filled his quiver with them! They will not be ashamed, but will speak with enemies in the gate.

O Yahweh, my heart, is not haughty, nor are mine eyes, lofty, neither have I moved among great matters, or among affairs too wonderful for me.

Surely I will not enter the home of my own house, nor ascend my curtained couch;

I will not give sleep to mine eyes, nor, to mine eye-lashes, slumber:

For the sake of David thy servant, do not turn away the face of thine Anointed One.

Yahweh hath sworn unto David, in faithfulness, will he not turn from it, - Of the fruit of thy body, will I seat on thy throne.

Lo! bless Yahweh, all ye servants of Yahweh, who stand in the house of Yahweh, by night:

Ears, have they, but they hear not, Nose, - there is no breath in their mouth.

The moon and stars to rule the night, For, age-abiding, is his lovingkindness.

Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee! if I do not lift up Jerusalem above the head of mine own gladness.

Yahweh, will carry through my cause, - O Yahweh! thy lovingkindness, is age-abiding, The works of thine own hands, do not thou desert.

Surely there hath not been a word on my tongue, but behold! O Yahweh, thou hast observed it on every side.

If I say, Surely, darkness, shall cover me! then, night, is light about me.

Even darkness, will not conceal from thee, - but, night, like day, will shine, So is the darkness, as the light!

My substance was not hid from thee, - when I was made in secret, when I was skilfully figured in the lower parts of the earth.

Mine unfinished substance, thine eyes beheld, and, in thy book, all the parts thereof were written, - the days they should be fashioned! while yet there was not one among them.

Wilt thou not, O GOD, slay the lawless one? Therefore, ye men of bloodshed, depart from me!

Do I not hate, them who hate thee, O Yahweh? And loathe, them who rise up against thee?

The proud have hidden a snare for me, and, cords, have they spread as a net beside the track, Snares, have they set for me. Selah.

Do not grant, O Yahweh, the desires of the lawless one, his device, do not promote, They would exalt themselves. Selah.

May there be dropped on them live coals, - Into the fire, may they be let fall, into watery pits from which they shall not rise.

As for the slanderer, let him not be established in the earth, - As for the man of wrongful violence, let misfortune hunt him with thrust upon thrust.

Let not my heart incline to a matter of wrong, that I should busy myself with practices in lawlessness, with men working iniquity, and let me not eat of their dainties.

Let a righteous man smite me - a lovingkindness, that he should correct me, an oil for the head which let not my head refuse! For, yet, even my prayer, shall be in their calamities.

Surely, unto thee, O Yahweh, My Lord, are mine eyes, In thee, have I sought refuge, Do not pour out my life.

When my spirit fainted concerning myself, then, thou, didst take note of my path, - In the course which I was about to take, they had hidden a snare for me.

Do not ye trust in nobles, in a son of man who hath no deliverance:

Not in the strength of the horse, doth he delight, Not in the legs of a man, hath he pleasure:

He hath not dealt so with any nation, and, his regulations, he maketh not known to them. Praise ye Yah!

So caused he them to stand perpetually - age-abidingly, A decree, hath he given, and it passeth not beyond.

Hear, my son, the correction of thy father, and do not reject the instruction of thy mother;

My son, if sinners entice thee, do not consent.

My son, do not walk in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path.

Surely, in vain, is spread the net, in the sight of aught that hath wings!

But ye dismissed all my counsel, and, to my rebuke, would not yield,

Then, will they call me, but I will not answer, they will seek me diligently, but shall not find me.

Because they hated knowledge, and, the reverence of Yahweh, did not choose;

Consented not to my counsel, disdained all my rebuke,

My son, mine instruction, do not thou forget, and, my commandment, let thy heart observe;

Lovingkindness and faithfulness, let them not forsake thee, - bind them, upon thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart:

Trust thou in Yahweh, with all thy heart, and, unto thine own understanding, do not lean:

Do not become wise in thine own eyes, revere Yahweh, and avoid evil:

The, chastening of Yahweh, my son, do not reject, nor loathe his rebuke;

My son, let them not depart from thine eyes, guard thou counsel, and purpose:

Then, shalt thou walk securely in thy way, and, thy foot, shall not stumble;

Be not thou afraid of sudden dread, nor of the desolation of the lawless, when it cometh.

Withhold not good from them who ask it, when it is in power of thy hand to do it:

Do not say to thy neighbour, Go and come again, and to-morrow I will give, when thou hast it by thee.

Devise not against thy neighbour an injury, seeing that, he, dwelleth securely by thee.

Contend not with a man without cause, if he hath dealt thee no wrong.

Do not thou envy the man of violence, neither choose thou any of his ways;

For, good teaching, have I given you, mine instruction, do not ye forsake.

Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding, Do not forget, neither decline thou from the sayings of my mouth.

Do not forsake her, and she will guard thee, - love her and she will keep thee.

When thou walkest, thy step shall not be hemmed in, and, if thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

Take fast hold of correction, let her not go, - keep her, for, she, is thy life.

Upon the path of the lawless, do not thou enter, and do not advance in the way of the wicked:

Avoid it, do not pass thereon - turn from it, and depart.

For they sleep not, unless they can do mischief, - They rob themselves of their sleep, if they cannot cause someone to stumble,

The way of the lawless, is like darkness, they know not, at what they stumble.

Let them not depart from thine eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart;

Decline not, to the right hand or to the left, - Turn away thy foot from wickedness.

Lest, the path of life, she should ponder, her tracks have wandered she knoweth not whither .

Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken unto me, and do not turn away from the sayings of my mouth.

Keep far from her thy way, and do not go near the opening of her house:

Let not thy fountains, flow over, abroad, in the streets, dividings of waters:

Let them be for thyself, alone, and not for strangers with thee.

Do not give sleep to thine eyes, or slumber to thine eyelashes;

Observe thou, my son, the commandment of thy father, and do not decline from the instruction of thy mother:

Do not covet her beauty, in thy heart, neither let her take thee, by her eyelashes;

Can a man snatch up fire in his bosom, and, his clothes, not be burned?

Or can a man walk upon hot coals, and, his feet, not be burned?

Men despise not a thief, when he stealeth, to satisfy his appetite, because he is famished;

Smiting and shame, shall he find, and, his reproach, shall not be wiped out;

He will not look, at any ransom, neither will he consent, though thou increase the bribe.

In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the midst of the night, and the gloom;

Boisterous, is she, and rebellious, In her house, abide not her feet;

For the husband is not in his house, he hath gone on a journey afar;