For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not done wickedly against my God.

Jehovah, Thou hast brought up from Sheol my soul, Thou hast kept me alive, From going down to the pit.

When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.

For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.

I was dumb with silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.

These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.

They have not kept the covenant of God, And in His law they have refused to walk,

He pondereth a path for His anger, He kept not back their soul from death, Yea, their life to the pestilence He delivered up.

And they tempt and provoke God Most High, And His testimonies have not kept.

In a pillar of cloud He speaketh unto them, They have kept His testimonies, And the statute He hath given to them.

Remove from me reproach and contempt, For Thy testimonies I have kept.

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

Before I am afflicted, I -- I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.

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

Pe. Wonderful are Thy testimonies, Therefore hath my soul kept them.

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

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

Kept hath my soul Thy testimonies, And I do love them exceedingly.

I have kept Thy precepts and Thy testimonies, For all my ways are before Thee!

Have I not compared, and kept silent my soul, As a weaned one by its mother? As a weaned one by me is my soul.