Zayin.
Remember [always] the word and promise to Your servant,
In which You have made me hope.

This is my comfort in my trouble; that your sayings have given me life.

The proud have had me exceedingly in derision; yet have I not shrinked from thy law.

I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.

I am burning with wrath, because of the sinners who have given up your law.

Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

I have thought upon thy name, O LORD, in the night season, and have kept thy law.

This hath been to me, That Thy precepts I have kept!

{Khet} Thou art my portion, O LORD, I have promised to keep thy law.

I have sought your favor with all of my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise.

I have reckoned my ways, And turn back my feet unto Thy testimonies.

I have made haste, And delayed not, to keep Thy commands.

The congregations of the ungodly have robbed me, but I have not forgotten thy law.

I keep company with all your worshippers, and those who have your orders in their memory.

LORD, you have dealt well with your servant, according to your word.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

Insensate as fat hath been their heart, I -- in Thy law I have delighted.

It is good for me that I have been in trouble, that I may learn thy statutes.

The law you have revealed is more important to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

{Yod} Thy hands have made me and fashioned me, O give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.

I have known, O Jehovah, That righteous are Thy judgments, And in faithfulness Thou hast afflicted me.

Let your mercy now be my comfort, as you have said to your servant.

Let your gentle mercies come to me, so that I may have life; for your law is my delight.

May the arrogant become ashamed, because they have subverted me with deceit; as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.

Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.

Kaph. Consumed for Thy salvation hath been my soul, For Thy word I have hoped.

Consumed have been mine eyes for Thy word, Saying, 'When doth it comfort me?'

For I have been as a bottle in smoke, Thy statutes I have not forgotten.

The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.

All Thy commands are faithfulness, With falsehood they have pursued me, Help Thou me.

They have almost made an end of me upon earth, but I forsake not thy commandments.

Revive me according to your gracious love; and I will keep the decrees that you have proclaimed. Lamed

Your faithfulness continues from generation to generation;
You have established the earth, and it stands [securely].

According to Thine ordinances They have stood this day, for the whole are Thy servants.

Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

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

I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.

The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.

I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.

{Mem} O LORD, what love have I unto thy law! All the day long is my study in it.

You through your commandments have made me wiser than my enemies: for they are ever with me.

I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my study.

Above elders I understand more, For Thy precepts I have kept.

I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.

I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.

How pleasing is what you have to say to me tasting better than honey.

From Thy precepts I have understanding, Therefore I have hated every false path!

I have sworn, and am steadfastly purposed, to keep thy righteous judgments.

I have been afflicted very much, O Jehovah, quicken me, according to Thy word.

My soul is in my hand continually, And Thy law I have not forgotten.

The ungodly have laid a snare for me; but yet swerve I not from thy commandments.

Thy testimonies have I claimed as my heritage forever; and why? They are the very joy of my heart.

I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.

Samech. Doubting ones I have hated, And Thy law I have loved.

My hiding place and my shield art Thou, For Thy word I have hoped.

Sustain me, God, as you have promised, and I will live. Do not let me be ashamed of my hope.

Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.

You have rejected all those who wander from Your statutes,
For their deceitfulness is useless.

Dross! Thou hast caused to cease All the wicked of the earth; Therefore I have loved Thy testimonies.

Trembled from Thy fear hath my flesh, And from Thy judgments I have been afraid!

AIN. I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.

Mine eyes have been consumed for Thy salvation. And for the saying of Thy righteousness.

I am your servant; give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your unchanging word.

It is time for thee, O LORD, to lay to thine hand; for they have destroyed thy law.

Therefore I have loved Thy commands Above gold -- even fine gold.

Therefore all my appointments I have declared wholly right, Every path of falsehood I have hated!

My mouth I have opened, yea, I pant, For, for Thy commands I have longed.

Turn in my direction and show mercy to me, as you have decreed regarding those who love your name.

Order my steps in thy word; and so shall no wickedness have dominion over me.

Rivulets of waters have come down mine eyes, Because they have not kept Thy law!

You have ordered your decrees to us rightly, and they are very faithful.

My zeal hath even consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.

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

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

Trouble and heaviness have taken hold upon me; yet is my delight in thy commandments.

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

Koph. I have called with the whole heart, Answer me, O Jehovah, Thy statutes I keep,

I have called Thee, save Thou me, And I do keep Thy testimonies.

I have gone forward in the dawn, and I cry, For Thy word I have hoped.

Mine eyes have gone before the watches, To meditate in Thy saying.

Near have been my wicked pursuers, From Thy law they have been far off.

As concerning thy testimonies, I have known ever since the beginning that thou hast grounded them for ever.

Resh. See my affliction, and deliver Thou me, For Thy law I have not forgotten.

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

Far from the wicked is salvation, For Thy statutes they have not sought.

Many are my pursuers, and adversaries, From Thy testimonies I have not turned aside.

I have seen treacherous ones, And grieve myself, Because Thy saying they have not kept.

See, for thy precepts I have loved, Jehovah, According to Thy kindness quicken me.

SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

I find joy at what you have said like one who has discovered a great treasure.

Falsehood I have hated, yea I abominate it, Thy law I have loved.

Seven times in a day I have praised Thee, Because of the judgments of Thy righteousness.

Great is the peace that they have which love thy law, and they are not offended at it.

LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.

My soul keeps Your testimonies [hearing and accepting and obeying them];
I love them greatly.

I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.

Let my request come before you; deliver me, as you have promised.