I am your servant; give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your unchanging word.

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

For this reason I have greater love far your teachings than for gold, even for shining gold.

Therefore all my appointments I have declared wholly right, Every path of falsehood I have hated!

My mouth I have opened, yea, I pant, For, for Thy commands I have longed.

Let your eyes be turned to me, and have mercy on me, as it is right for you to do to those who are lovers of your name.

Order my steps in your word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

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

Your testimonies that you have commanded are righteous and very faithful.

My zeal has consumed me, because my enemies have forgotten your words.

Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.

Small I am, and despised, Thy precepts I have not forgotten.

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

The righteousness of your unchanging word is eternal; give me wisdom so that I may have life.

I have made my prayer with all my heart; give answer to me, O Lord: I will keep your rules.

I have called Thee, save Thou me, And I do keep Thy testimonies.

I have gone forward in the dawn, and I cry, For Thy word I have hoped.

Mine eyes have gone before the watches, To meditate in Thy saying.

Those who have evil designs against me come near; they are far from your law.

Concerning your testimonies, I have known of old that you have founded them forever.

ר ReshConsider my affliction and rescue me,
for I have not forgotten Your instruction.

Undertake my cause, and come to my help, give me life, as you have said.

Salvation is far from evil-doers; for they have made no search for your rules.

Great is the number of those who are against me; but I have not been turned away from your unchanging word.

I have seen the disloyal and feel disgust
because they do not keep Your word.

See, for thy precepts I have loved, Jehovah, According to Thy kindness quicken me.

[Shin] Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart stands in awe of your word.

I have joy in thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.

Falsehood I have hated, yea I abominate it, Thy law I have loved.

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

Great peace have they who love your law: and nothing shall offend them.

LORD, I have hoped for your salvation, and done your commandments.

My soul hath kept thy testimonies, yea I have loved them greatly.

I have kept your precepts and your testimonies: for all my ways are before you.

Let my prayer come before you; take me out of trouble, as you have said.

My lips shall utter praise, when you have taught me your statutes.

Let your hand help me; for I have chosen your precepts.

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

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant; for I do not forget your commandments.

A Song of the Ascents. Unto Jehovah in my distress I have called, And He answereth me.

What misery that I have stayed in Meshech,
that I have lived among the tents of Kedar!

I have lived too long
with those who hate peace.

A Song of the Ascents, by David. I have rejoiced in those saying to me, 'To the house of Jehovah we go.'

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

For thither have tribes gone up, Tribes of Jah, companies of Israel, To give thanks to the name of Jehovah.

For there have sat thrones of judgment, Thrones of the house of David.

A Song of the Ascents. Unto Thee I have lifted up mine eyes, O dweller in the heavens.

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

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

We have had our fill of the taunts of the self-assured, of the contempt of the proud.

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:

Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

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

A Song of the Ascents. In Jehovah's turning back to the captivity of Zion, We have been as dreamers.

Jehovah did great things with us, We have been joyful.

A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked.

You will surely eat
what your hands have worked for.
You will be happy,
and it will go well for you.

[A song of ascents.] Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

Over my back have ploughers ploughed, They have made long their furrows.

All them that have an evil will to Zion shall be confounded, and made to turn back from it.

And the passers by have not said, 'The blessing of Jehovah is on you, We blessed you in the Name of Jehovah!'

[A song of ascents.] Out of the depths have I cried unto you, O LORD.

I hoped for Jehovah -- hoped hath my soul, And for His word I have waited.

I have hoped, O my soul, for My Lord, more than they who watch for the morning, who watch for the morning.

Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard 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.

Until I find a place for the Lord,
A dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob (Israel).”

'Lo, we have heard it in Ephratah, We have found it in the fields of the forest.

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

There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

For I have known that great is Jehovah, Yea, our Lord is above all gods.

O Lord, your name is eternal; and the memory of you will have no end.

For the LORD will judge his people, and he will have compassion on his servants.

They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;

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

The sun to have rule by day: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

The moon and the stars to have rule by night: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

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

I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your name for your lovingkindness and for your truth: for you have magnified your word above all your name.

All the kings on earth will give You thanks, Lord,
when they hear what You have promised.

The Lord avenges me. O Lord, your loyal love endures. Do not abandon those whom you have made!

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] O LORD, you have searched me, and known me.

You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.

You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.

Even before I have formed a word with my tongue, you, LORD, know it completely!

You have hedged me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me.

For you have formed my inward parts: you have covered me in my mother's womb.

I will praise You
because I have been remarkably and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful,
and I know this very well.

Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.

And to me how precious have been Thy thoughts, O God, how great hath been their sum!

I recount them! than the sand they are more, I have waked, and I am still with Thee.

With perfect hatred I have hated them, Enemies they have become to me.

Who have devised evils in the heart, All the day they assemble for wars.

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

Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my paths.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me. Selah.

I have said to the Lord, You are my God: give ear, O Lord, to the voice of my prayer.

O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.