Uncover my eyes, that I may look at wonderful things from your law.

My soul is crushed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

Teach me, O Yahweh, the way of your statutes, and I will keep it to the end.

Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and heed it with [my] whole heart.

Cause me to walk in the path of your commands, for I delight in it.

Turn away my eyes from looking at [what is] worthless; revive me in your ways.

[It is] good for me that I was afflicted, so that I might learn your statutes.

For I have become like a wineskin in [the] smoke, [yet] I have not forgotten your statutes.

Your faithfulness [endures] {throughout all generations}. You have established [the] earth and it stands.

For me [the] wicked [lie in] wait to destroy me. I give attention to your testimonies.

How I love your law! The whole day it [is] my meditation.

I have sworn [an oath] and confirmed [it], to heed {your righteous ordinances}.

My life [is] {in danger} continually, yet I do not forget your law.

[The] wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I do not wander from your precepts.

[It is] time for Yahweh to act, [for] they have broken your law.

Your word [is] very pure, and your servant loves it.

I [am] small and despised, [yet] I do not forget your precepts.

My persecutors and enemies [are] many, [yet] I do not turn aside from your testimonies.

Let my lips pour out praise, because you teach me your statutes.

Let my soul live that it may praise you, and let your ordinances help me.

What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you, deceitful tongue?

Yahweh [is] your protector; Yahweh [is] your shade at your right hand.

Yahweh will protect your going out and your coming in from now until forever.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May those who love you be at ease.

"If [it had] not [been] Yahweh who was on our side," do let Israel say,

"If [it had] not [been] Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us,

For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the {land} of the righteous, lest the righteous stretch out their hands to do wickedness.

He who diligently goes [out] with weeping, carrying the seed bag, shall certainly come [in] with rejoicing, carrying his sheaves.

Unless Yahweh builds a house, its builders labor at it in vain. Unless Yahweh guards a city, a guard watches in vain.

[It is] in vain for you who rise early [and] sit late, eating the bread of anxious toil, [when] thus he provides for his beloved in [his] sleep.

Blessed [is] the man who fills his quiver with them. They shall not be put to shame when they speak with enemies at the gate.

You will indeed eat of the labor of your hands; you [will be] happy and [it will be] well with you.

"Too often they have attacked me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

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

Out of [the] depths I call to you, O Yahweh.

I await Yahweh; my soul awaits, and I wait for his word.

O Israel, wait for Yahweh. For with Yahweh [there is] loyal love, and with him [there is] abundant redemption.

Look, we heard of it in Ephrathah; we found her in the fields of Jaar.

Let us go to his dwelling places; Let us worship at his footstool.

Yahweh swore [in] truth to David; he will not turn back from it. "One from the fruit of your {body} I will set on your throne.

For Yahweh has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation.

"This [is] my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.

Look, how good and how pleasant [it is] [when] brothers dwell together in unity.

[It is] like the fragrant oil upon the head, running down upon the beard, the beard of Aaron, that runs down upon the edges of his robes.

[It is] like the dew of Hermon that runs down upon the mountains of Zion, because there Yahweh commanded the blessing-- life forever.

Praise Yah, for Yahweh [is] good. Sing praises concerning his name, for [it is] pleasant.

[He] causes clouds to rise from the edge of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain; [he] brings out [the] wind from his storehouses.

To [him who] spread out the earth above the waters, for his loyal love [endures] forever.

And he brought Israel out from among them, for his loyal love [endures] forever.

And he let Israel cross over through the midst of it, for his loyal love [endures] forever.

Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of Edom the day of Jerusalem, the ones who said, "Lay [it] bare! Lay [it] bare to its foundation!"

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

Though Yahweh [is] high, yet he sees [the] lowly, but [the] proud he perceives at a distance.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve me alive. You stretch out your hand against the anger of my enemies, and you save me [with] your right hand.

You search out my wandering and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

For [there is] not a word [yet] on my tongue, [but] behold, O Yahweh, you know it completely.

[Such] knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is set high; I cannot [prevail] against it.

I praise you, because I am fearfully [and] wonderfully [made]. Wonderful [are] your works, and my soul knows [it] well.

[The] proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords. They have spread out a net along [the] {side} of [the] path. They have set snares for me. Selah

Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked deeds with men [who] do iniquity; and do not let me eat of their delicacies.

Let a righteous one strike me in kindness, and let him chasten me. [It is] oil for [my] head; let not my head refuse. For still my prayer [is] against their evil deeds.

As [when one] plows and breaks up the earth, [so] our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

I cry out with my voice to Yahweh; I implore favor with my voice to Yahweh.

I pour out my complaint before him; I declare my trouble before him.

look to [my] right and see. There is no one looking out for me; there is no escape for me; no one cares for my soul.

I cry out to you, O Yahweh. I say, "You [are] my refuge, my portion in the land of the living."

Bring me out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. [The] righteous will encircle me, because you will deal bountifully with me.

I stretch out my hands to you; my soul [longs] for you like a dry land. Selah

For your name's sake, O Yahweh, preserve my life; in your righteousness bring me out of trouble.

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

Stretch out your hands from on high; Rescue me and deliver me from many waters, from [the] hand of foreigners,

[that] our cattle [may be] pregnant; [that there be] no breach [in our walls], and no going out [in exile], and no outcry in our plazas.

Blessed [are] the people who have [it] thus. Blessed [are] the people whose God [is] Yahweh.

Yahweh protects [the] strangers. He helps up [the] orphan and [the] widow, but [the] way of [the] wicked he {thwarts}.

Praise Yah. For [it is] good to sing praises [to] our God; for [it is] pleasant; praise is fitting.

[he] makes your border peaceful; he satisfies you with [the] {finest of wheat}.

[He] sends out his command to [the] earth; his word runs swiftly.

He sends out his word and melts them; he blows his breath, the water flows.

Every breathing thing, let it praise Yah. Praise Yah.

If they say, "Come with us! We shall lie in wait for blood; we shall ambush the innocent without cause.

They lie in wait for their [own] blood. They ambush their [own] lives.

Thus are the ways of all who are greedy [for] gain-- it will take the life of its possessors.

Wisdom calls out in the streets, in the squares she raises her voice.

On a {busy corner} she cries out, at the entrances of the gates in the city, she speaks her sayings:

May you turn to my argument! Behold, I shall pour out my spirit upon you; I will make my words known to you.

Because I called out and you refused me, I stretched out my hand, yet there is none who heeds.

I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when panic comes [upon] you.

They shall eat from the fruit of their way, and they shall be sated from their own schemes,

For if you cry out for understanding, [if] you lift your voice for insight,

if you seek her like silver and search her out {like treasure},

For those who are upright will dwell [in the] land, and those who are blameless will remain in it.

And those who are wicked will be cut off from the land, and those who are treacherous will be uprooted from it.

For length of days, years of life, and peace they shall add to you.

Do not withhold good from its owner when it is in the power of your hand to do.

Do not say to your neighbor, "Go and return and tomorrow I will give [it]," {when it is with you}.

Avoid it; do not transgress it; turn away from it and pass by.

For they ate the bread of wickedness, and they drank the wine of violence.

The way of the wicked ones [is] like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.

With all vigilance, keep your heart, for from it [comes] the source of life.

She does not observe the path of life; her ways wander, [and] she does not know [it].