The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

The Law you have spoken is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

YOD Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word.

LORD, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have humbled me.

Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I do not forget your statutes.

The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your Law.

Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.

Unless your Law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.

I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.

The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless.

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.

I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.

I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.

I have not turned aside from your ordinances, for you have taught me.

I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven't gone astray from your precepts.

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end.

Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for your statutes continually.

AYIN. I have done what is just and righteous. Do not leave me to my oppressors.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.

You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.

Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.

QOPH. I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, LORD. I will keep your statutes.

I have called to you. Save me. I will obey your statutes.

Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have founded them forever.

SIN and SHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

Those who love your Law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

I have hoped for your salvation, LORD. I have done your commandments.

I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies, for all my ways are before you.

Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

I have longed for your salvation, LORD. Your Law is my delight.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.

Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

Out of the depths I have cried to you, LORD.

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

"This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, for I have desired it.

There I will make the horn of David to bud. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

For the LORD will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants.

They have mouths, but they can't speak. They have eyes, but they can't see.

They have ears, but they can't hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be blessed who rewards you, as you have served us.

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, LORD, for they have heard the words of your mouth.

LORD, you have searched me, and you know me.

I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.

LORD, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

LORD, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

LORD, I have called on you. Come to me quickly. Listen to my voice when I call to you.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. In the way in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

to execute on them the written judgment. All his holy ones have this honor. Praise the LORD.