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

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

Therefore I have loved Thy commands Above gold -- even fine 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.

Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me, As thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.

Order my steps in thy 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!

You have commanded Your testimonies in righteousness
And in great faithfulness.

My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.

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

I am little and despised: thy precepts have I not forgotten.

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

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

QOPH. I have called with my whole heart; answer me, O Jehovah: I will keep thy statutes.

I have called unto thee; save me, And I shall observe 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.

They have drawn nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.

Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.

RESH. See mine affliction, and deliver me; for I have not forgotten thy law.

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

Far from the wicked is salvation, For Thy statutes they have not sought.

Many are my persecutors and mine adversaries; Yet have I not swerved from thy testimonies.

I have seen treacherous ones, And grieve myself, Because Thy saying they have not kept.

See how I have loved thy precepts: quicken me, O Jehovah, according to thy loving-kindness.

SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy 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 which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

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

My soul keeps Your testimonies [hearing and accepting and obeying them];
I love them greatly.

I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.

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

Let my lips be flowing with praise, because you have given me knowledge of your rules.

Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

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

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

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

Woe to me, for I have inhabited Mesech, I have dwelt with 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 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.

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 [quickly] swallowed us alive,
When their wrath was kindled against us;

Then the waters would have engulfed us,
The torrent would have swept over our soul;

Then the raging waters would have swept over our soul.”

Our soul is 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 degrees.} 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 degrees.} Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, 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.

A Song of the Ascents, by David. Jehovah, my heart hath not been haughty, Nor have mine eyes been high, Nor have I walked in great things, And in things too wonderful 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 for ever: 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 mine 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 Yahweh will plead [the] cause [of] his people and 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, you devastator,
How blessed will be the one
Who repays you [with destruction] as you have repaid us.

I will bow down [in worship] toward Your holy temple
And give thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your truth;
For You have magnified Your word together with Your name.

All the kings of the earth shall give thee thanks, O Jehovah, For they have heard the words of thy mouth.

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

O Lord, you have searched me [thoroughly] and have 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 enclosed me behind and before,
And [You have] placed Your hand upon me.

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

I confess Thee, because that with wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful are Thy works, And my soul is knowing it 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 goings.

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

I have said unto Jehovah, Thou art my God: give ear, O Jehovah, to the voice of my supplications.

“O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation,
You have covered my head in the day of battle.