[Mem] O how love I your law! it is my meditation all the day.

[Nun] Your word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget your law.

Your testimonies have I taken as a heritage forever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

You have trodden down all them that stray from your statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

[Ayin] I have done what is right and just: leave me not to my oppressors.

It is time for you, LORD, to work: for they have made void your law.

Look upon me, and be merciful unto me, as you do unto those that love your name.

Your word is very pure: therefore your servant loves it.

Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is the truth.

The righteousness of your testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.

Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not your statutes.

Your word is true from the beginning: and every one of your righteous judgments endures forever.

I rejoice at your word, as one that finds great spoil.

I have longed for your salvation, O LORD; and your law is my delight.

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

The LORD is your keeper: the LORD is your shade upon your right hand.

[A song of ascents. Of David.] I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.

Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together:

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 he has mercy upon us.

Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorn of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

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

Then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us:

Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul:

Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

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

[A song of ascents.] They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abides forever.

As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from this time forth even forever.

As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

The LORD has done great things for us; and we are glad.

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

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

Lo, children are a 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 has his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

[A song of ascents.] Blessed is every one that fears the LORD; that walks in his ways.

Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of your house: your children like olive plants round about your table.

The LORD is righteous: he has cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up:

But there is forgiveness with you, that you may be feared.

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

[A song of ascents. Of David.] LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

This is my rest forever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

[A song of ascents. 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;

As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life forevermore.

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

For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.

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 trusts in them.

O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures forever.

Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endures forever:

And has redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endures forever.

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewards you as you have served us.

Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

Yea, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you.

Your eyes did see my substance, being yet unformed; and in your book they were all written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.

How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

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

But my eyes are unto you, O GOD the Lord: in you is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.

For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

I stretch forth my hands unto you: my soul thirsts after you, as a thirsty land. Selah.

Teach me to do your will; for you are my God: your Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

LORD, what is man, that you take knowledge of him! or the son of man, that you make account of him!

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.

Whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

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

Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner pillars, polished after the similitude of a palace:

Happy is that people, that is in such a state: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.

The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations.

The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

The LORD is near unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:

Who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that is therein: who keeps truth forever:

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

Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.

He casts forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?

He has not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise you the LORD.

Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their riddles.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause:

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse: