My eyes grow tired as I wait for your promise to be fulfilled. I say, "When will you comfort me?"

For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day.

I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.

You are my hiding place and my shield;
I wait for Your word.

My eyes grow tired as I wait for your deliverance, for your reliable promise to be fulfilled.

It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.

I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.

I rise before dawn and cry for help;
I wait for Your words.

Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.

The LORD preserveth thee from all evil; yea, it is the LORD that keepeth thy soul.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.

{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:

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

For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

May the Lord bless you from Zion [His holy mountain],
And may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life;

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

I wait for the Lord
more than watchmen for the morning—
more than watchmen for the morning.

For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.

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

It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

May the Lord bless you from Zion,
He who made heaven and earth.

Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant.

Blessed be Yahweh out of Zion, Who inhabiteth Jerusalem, Praise ye Yah!

Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

O daughter of Babylon, about to be devastated, happy [shall be he] who pays back to you {what you paid out to us}.

Though lofty is Yahweh, yet, the lowly, he regardeth, but, the haughty - afar off, doth he acknowledge.

Incline not my heart to an evil thing, To do habitually actions in wickedness, With men working iniquity, Yea, I eat not of their pleasant things.

Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

They who are lawless, shall fall into the nooses thereof, while, I, at the same time, pass on.

O Yahweh, what [is] humankind that you take knowledge of him, [or the] son of man that you take thought of him?

It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.

Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.

Yahweh, hath pleasure, in them who revere him, in them who wait for his lovingkindness.

Praise ye Yah, Praise Yahweh, out of the heavens, Praise him, in the heights;

Praise Yahweh, out of the earth, sea monsters, and all resounding deeps;

My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.

Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

Say not to your neighbour, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when you have it by you at the time.

Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Let her be as a loving hind and graceful doe,
Let her breasts refresh and satisfy you at all times;
Always be exhilarated and delight in her love.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

On the top of high places by the way, at the cross-paths she taketh her stand.

"O come on your way, eat my bread, and drink my wine, which I have poured out for you.

If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

In the way of righteousness there is life; as for any other way, it is the path unto death.

The ransom for a man’s life is his wealth,
But the poor man does not even have to listen to a rebuke or threats [from the envious].

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.

It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.

Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.

The fear of the LORD preserveth the life; yea it giveth plenteousness, without the visitation of any plague.

It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

An abomination of Yahweh [is] {a stone and a weight}, and scales of falsehood are not good.

It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make inquiry.

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

The good eye it shall be blessed, for he gave from his bread to the poor.

For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

[In order] to show you what is right--sayings of truth-- [in order] to return a true saying to him who sent you.

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he [in behavior—one who manipulates].
He says to you, “Eat and drink,”
Yet his heart is not with you [but it is begrudging the cost].

Do not spend time among drunkards, among those who eat too much meat,

Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:

So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.

Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.

Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.