I will delight in Your statutes;
I will not forget Your word.

Open my eyes so that I may contemplate
wonderful things from Your instruction.

I am a stranger on earth;
do not hide Your commands from me.

ד DaletMy life is down in the dust;
give me life through Your word.

Help me understand
the meaning of Your precepts
so that I can meditate on Your wonders.

Help me stay on the path of Your commands,
for I take pleasure in it.

Turn my eyes
from looking at what is worthless;
give me life in Your ways.

Then I can answer the one who taunts me,
for I trust in Your word.

Never take the word of truth from my mouth,
for I hope in Your judgments.

I will walk freely in an open place
because I seek Your precepts.

I delight in Your commands,
which I love.

I will lift up my hands to Your commands,
which I love,
and will meditate on Your statutes.

This is my comfort in my affliction:
Your promise has given me life.

Yahweh, I remember Your name in the night,
and I obey Your instruction.

Teach me good judgment and discernment,
for I rely on Your commands.

Their hearts are hard and insensitive,
but I delight in Your instruction.

Those who fear You will see me and rejoice,
for I put my hope in Your word.

Let the arrogant be put to shame
for slandering me with lies;
I will meditate on Your precepts.

כ KafI long for Your salvation;
I put my hope in Your word.

My eyes grow weary
looking for what You have promised;
I ask, “When will You comfort me?”

How many days must Your servant wait?
When will You execute judgment on my persecutors?

They almost ended my life on earth,
but I did not abandon Your precepts.

Give me life in accordance with Your faithful love,
and I will obey the decree You have spoken.

ל LamedLord, Your word is forever;
it is firmly fixed in heaven.

They stand today in accordance with Your judgments,
for all things are Your servants.

If Your instruction had not been my delight,
I would have died in my affliction.

נ NunYour word is a lamp for my feet
and a light on my path.

My life is constantly in danger,
yet I do not forget Your instruction.

You are my shelter and my shield;
I put my hope in Your word.

You remove all the wicked on earth
as if they were dross;
therefore, I love Your decrees.

I tremble in awe of You;
I fear Your judgments.

Deal with Your servant based on Your faithful love;
teach me Your statutes.

Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,
and Your instruction is true.

I rise before dawn and cry out for help;
I put my hope in Your word.

I am awake through each watch of the night
to meditate on Your promise.

In keeping with Your faithful love, hear my voice.
Lord, give me life in keeping with Your justice.

I rejoice over Your promise
like one who finds vast treasure.

A song of ascents.In my distress I called to the Lord,
and He answered me.

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

I am for peace; but when I speak,
they are for war.

where the tribes, Yahweh’s tribes, go up
to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.
(This is an ordinance for Israel.)

A song of ascents.I lift my eyes to You,
the One enthroned in heaven.

Like a servant’s eyes on his master’s hand,
like a servant girl’s eyes on her mistress’s hand,
so our eyes are on the Lord our God
until He shows us favor.

A Davidic song of ascents.If the Lord had not been on our side—
let Israel say—

If the Lord had not been on our side
when men attacked us,

then they would have swallowed us alive
in their burning anger against us.

Our help is in the name of Yahweh,
the Maker of heaven and earth.

A song of ascents.Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion.
It cannot be shaken; it remains forever.

A song of ascents.When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion,
we were like those who dream.

Restore our fortunes, Lord,
like watercourses in the Negev.

Those who sow in tears
will reap with shouts of joy.

Though one goes along weeping,
carrying the bag of seed,
he will surely come back with shouts of joy,
carrying his sheaves.

A Solomonic song of ascents.Unless the Lord builds a house,
its builders labor over it in vain;
unless the Lord watches over a city,
the watchman stays alert in vain.

In vain you get up early and stay up late,
working hard to have enough food—
yes, He gives sleep to the one He loves.

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior
are the sons born in one’s youth.

Happy is the man who has filled his quiver with them.
Such men will never be put to shame
when they speak with their enemies at the city gate.

A song of ascents.How happy is everyone who fears the Lord,
who walks in His ways!

In this very way
the man who fears the Lord
will be blessed.

Let all who hate Zion
be driven back in disgrace.

Let them be like grass on the rooftops,
which withers before it grows up

and can’t even fill the hands of the reaper
or the arms of the one who binds sheaves.

Then none who pass by will say,
“May the Lord’s blessing be on you.”

We bless you in the name of Yahweh.

I wait for Yahweh; I wait
and put my hope in His word.

Israel, put your hope in the Lord.
For there is faithful love with the Lord,
and with Him is redemption in abundance.

Israel, put your hope in the Lord,
both now and forever.

and how he swore an oath to the Lord,
making a vow to the Mighty One of Jacob:

until I find a place for the Lord,
a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

We heard of the ark in Ephrathah;
we found it in the fields of Jaar.

Because of Your servant David,
do not reject Your anointed one.

The Lord swore an oath to David,
a promise He will not abandon:
“I will set one of your descendants
on your throne.

If your sons keep My covenant
and My decrees that I will teach them,
their sons will also sit on your throne forever.”

There I will make a horn grow for David;
I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.

A Davidic song of ascents.How good and pleasant it is
when brothers live together in harmony!

It is like fine oil on the head,
running down on the beard,
running down Aaron’s beard
onto his robes.

It is like the dew of Hermon
falling on the mountains of Zion.
For there the Lord has appointed the blessing—
life forevermore.

A song of ascents.Now praise the Lord,
all you servants of the Lord
who stand in the Lord’s house at night!

Lift up your hands in the holy place
and praise the Lord!

who stand in the house of Yahweh,
in the courts of the house of our God.

Yahweh does whatever He pleases
in heaven and on earth,
in the seas and all the depths.

He gave their land as an inheritance,
an inheritance to His people Israel.

For Yahweh will vindicate His people
and have compassion on His servants.

They have ears but cannot hear;
indeed, there is no breath in their mouths.

Those who make them are just like them,
as are all who trust in them.

May the Lord be praised from Zion;
He dwells in Jerusalem.
Hallelujah!

He spread the land on the waters.
        His love is eternal.

He led His people in the wilderness.
        His love is eternal.

and gave their land as an inheritance,
        His love is eternal.

an inheritance to Israel His servant.
        His love is eternal.

He remembered us in our humiliation
        His love is eternal.

By the rivers of Babylon—
there we sat down and wept
when we remembered Zion.

There we hung up our lyres
on the poplar trees,

for our captors there asked us for songs,
and our tormentors, for rejoicing:
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”

How can we sing the Lord’s song
on foreign soil?

Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who pays you back
what you have done to us.

On the day I called, You answered me;
You increased strength within me.

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

If I walk into the thick of danger,
You will preserve my life
from the anger of my enemies.
You will extend Your hand;
Your right hand will save me.

You know when I sit down and when I stand up;
You understand my thoughts from far away.

Before a word is on my tongue,
You know all about it, Lord.

You have encircled me;
You have placed Your hand on me.