Then, shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

Thy statutes, will I keep, Do not thou forsake me utterly.

With all my heart, have I sought thee, Suffer me not to be led astray from thy commandments.

In my heart, have I treasured what thou hast said, to the end I may not sin against thee.

In thy statutes, will I find my dear delight, I will not forget thy word.

A sojourner, am, I, in the earth, Do not hide from me, thy commandments.

I have kept close to thy testimonies, O Yahweh! do not put me to shame.

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not unto unjust gain.

And do not snatch away from my mouth the word of truth in any wise, because, for thy regulation, have I waited.

That I may speak of thy testimonies before kings, and not be ashamed.

Insolent men, have derided me exceedingly, From thy law, have I not swerved.

I have remembered, in the night, thy Name, O Yahweh, and have kept thy law.

I have hastened, and not delayed, to keep thy commandments.

The meshes of the lawless, have surrounded me, Thy law, have I not forgotten.

Let my heart be thorough in thy statutes, that I may not be ashamed.

Though I have been like a wine-skin in the smoke, thy statutes, have I not forgotten.

Insolent men digged for me pits, men who are not according to thy law.

A little more, and they had consumed me in the earth, but, I, forsake not thy precepts.

Had not thy law been my dear delight, then, had I perished in mine affliction.

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.