The righteousness of your unchanging word is eternal; give me wisdom so that I may have life.

Before the sun is up, my cry for help comes to your ear; my hope is in your words.

I have long had knowledge that your unchanging word is for ever.

Undertake my cause, and come to my help, give me life, as you have said.

Salvation is far from evil-doers; for they have made no search for your rules.

Great is the number of your mercies, O Lord; give me life in keeping with your decisions.

Great is the number of those who are against me; but I have not been turned away from your unchanging word.

See how great is my love for your orders: give me life, O Lord, in keeping with your mercy.

Your word is true from the first; and your upright decision is unchanging for ever.

My soul has kept your unchanging word; great is my love for it.

Let my prayer come before you; take me out of trouble, as you have said.

All my desire has been for your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my delight.

To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens.

Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever.

If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.

Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways.

Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me.

See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!

Give praise to Jah, for he is good: make melody to his name, for it is pleasing.

I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is greater than all other gods.

O Lord, your name is eternal; and the memory of you will have no end.

They have ears, but no hearing; and there is no breath in their mouths.

Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.

Praise be to the Lord out of Zion, even to the Lord whose house is in Jerusalem, Let the Lord be praised.

O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

O give praise to the God of gods: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

O give praise to the Lord of lords: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

To him who only does great wonders: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

To him who by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

To him by whom the earth was stretched out over the waters: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

To him who made great lights: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

The sun to have rule by day: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

The moon and the stars to have rule by night: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

To him who put to death the first-fruits of Egypt: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:

And took out Israel from among them: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:

With a strong hand and an outstretched arm: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

To him who made a way through the Red Sea: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:

And let Israel go through it: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:

By him Pharaoh and his army were overturned in the Red Sea: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

To him who took his people through the waste land: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

To him who overcame great kings: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:

And put noble kings to death: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:

Sihon, king of the Amorites: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:

And Og, king of Bashan: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:

And gave their land to his people for a heritage: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

Even a heritage for his servant Israel: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

Who kept us in mind when we were in trouble: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

And has taken us out of the hands of our haters: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

O give praise to the God of heaven: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion.

O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us.

Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.

They will make songs about the ways of the Lord; for great is the glory of the Lord.

Though the Lord is high, he sees those who are low; and he has knowledge from far off of those who are lifted up.

Even when trouble is round me, you will give me life; your hand will be stretched out against the wrath of my haters, and your right hand will be my salvation.

The Lord will make all things complete for me: O Lord, your mercy is eternal; do not give up the works of your hands.

For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.

Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it.

Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.

How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!

My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.

See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way.

Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)

As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.

When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

Praise be to the God of my strength, teaching my hands the use of the sword, and my fingers the art of fighting:

Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;

Give praise to the Lord; for it is good to make melody to our God; praise is pleasing and beautiful.

The Lord is building up Jerusalem; he makes all the outlaws of Israel come together.

Great is our Lord, and great his power; there is no limit to his wisdom.

By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.

The Lord takes pleasure in his worshippers, and in those whose hope is in his mercy.

He gives snow like wool; he sends out ice-drops like dust.

He sends down ice like raindrops: water is made hard by his cold.

At the outgoing of his word, the ice is turned to water; when he sends out his wind, there is a flowing of waters.

He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.

Fire and rain of ice, snow and mists; storm-wind, doing his word:

Let them give glory to the name of the Lord: for his name only is to be praised: his kingdom is over the earth and the heaven.

He has put on high the horn of his people, for the praise of all his saints; even the children of Israel, a people which is near to him. Let the Lord be praised.

To give them the punishment which is in the holy writings: this honour is given to all his saints. Praise be to the Lord.