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

Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

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

I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.

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

Blessing in abundance, have the lovers of thy law, and nothing to make them stumble.

Lord, my hope has been in your salvation; and I have kept your teachings.

Let my cry come before you, O Lord; give me wisdom in keeping with your word.

My supplication cometh in before Thee, According to Thy saying deliver Thou me.

My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.

Let my tongue make songs in praise of your word; for all your teachings are righteousness.

I long for your deliverance, O Lord; I find delight in your law.

I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.

{A Song of degrees.} In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.

Sharp arrows of a mighty one, with burning coals of broom-wood.

Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

Too long my soul has had its dwelling near [one who] hates peace.

I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

Look! The one who is guarding Israel never sleeps and does not take naps.

Jehovah is thy preserver, Jehovah is thy shade on thy right hand,

By day the sun shall not burn thee, and the moon in the night

The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

{A Song of degrees of David.} I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.

Our feet have been standing in thy gates, O Jerusalem!

Jerusalem -- the builded one -- Is as a city that is joined to itself together.

Whither the tribes go up, even the tribes of Jehovah, For an ordinance for Israel, To give thanks unto the name of Jehovah.

Indeed, the leaders sit there on thrones and make legal decisions, on the thrones of the house of David.

Peace is in thy bulwark, rest in thy high places,

For the sake of my brethren and my companions, Let me speak, I pray thee, 'Peace be in thee.'

{A Song of degrees.} Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

Like a servant’s eyes on his master’s hand,
like a servant girl’s eyes on her mistress’s hand,
so our eyes are on the Lord our God
until He shows us favor.

Be gracious to us, O Lord, be gracious and favorable toward us,
For we are greatly filled with contempt.

{A Song of degrees of David.} If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

{A Song of degrees.} They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.

For the rod of wickedness resteth not On the lot of the righteous, That the righteous put not forth on iniquity their hands.

Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.

As to those turning to their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!

{A Song of degrees.} When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Whoso goeth on and weepeth, Bearing the basket of seed, Surely cometh in with singing, bearing his sheaves!

{A Song of degrees for Solomon.} Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to lie down late, to eat the bread of sorrows: so to his beloved one he giveth sleep.

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

{A Song of degrees.} Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.

When you shall eat of the fruit of your hands,
You will be happy and it will be well with you.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.

In this very way
the man who fears the Lord
will be blessed.

Jehovah doth bless thee out of Zion, Look, then, on the good of Jerusalem, All the days of thy life,

And see the sons of thy sons! Peace on Israel!

Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);

On my back plowmen have plowed. They have made their furrows long."

The Lord is righteous;
He has cut in two the cords of the wicked.

Let all who hate Zion
be driven back in disgrace.

Let them be like grass on [the] housetops, that withers before it grows up,

and can’t even fill the hands of the reaper
or the arms of the one who binds sheaves.

Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.

If You will keep in mind iniquities, O Jehovah, who shall stand, O Lord?

I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

{A Song of degrees of David.} LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

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.

Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.

LORD, remember in David's favor all of his troubles;

How he sware unto Jehovah, And vowed unto the Mighty One of Jacob:

'If I enter into the tent of my house, If I go up on the couch of my bed,

Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.

Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.

We come in to His tabernacles, We bow ourselves at His footstool.

Thy priests do put on righteousness, And Thy pious ones cry aloud.

For the sake of Your servant David,
Do not turn away the face of Your anointed.

The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.

If thy sons keep My covenant, And My testimonies that I teach them, Their sons also for ever and ever, Do sit on the throne for thee.

For Jehovah hath fixed on Zion, He hath desired it for a seat to Himself,

There I will cause a horn to grow for David; I will set a lamp for my anointed one.

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on him his crown will flourish."

{A Song of degrees of David.} Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

As the good oil on the head, Coming down on the beard, the beard of Aaron, That cometh down on the skirt of his robes,

As the dew of Hermon that descendeth on the mountains of Zion; for there hath Jehovah commanded the blessing, life for evermore.

{A Song of degrees.} Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

Ye that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God,

Praise ye Jah; for Jehovah is good: play on the harp to his name, for it is pleasant

For Jehovah hath chosen Jacob unto himself, And Israel for his own possession.

Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

He sent tokens and wonders into thy midst, O Egypt, On Pharaoh and on all his servants.

And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.

Thy name, O LORD, endureth forever; so doth thy memorial, O LORD, from one generation to another.

For Jehovah will judge his people, and will repent in favour of his servants.

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

They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.

Blessed [be] Yahweh from Zion, who dwells [in] Jerusalem. Praise Yah!

To the one who alone does great and wondrous things, for his gracious love is everlasting

to the one who by wisdom made the heavens, for his gracious love is everlasting

He spread the land on the waters.
        His love is eternal.