I remembered your judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.

I have remembered your name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept your law.

I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto your testimonies.

I made haste, and delayed not to keep your commandments.

I am a companion of all them that fear you, and of them that keep your precepts.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed your commandments.

You are good, and do good; teach me your statutes.

The law of your mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

[Yod] Your hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

I know, O LORD, that your judgments are right, and that you in faithfulness have afflicted me.

Let those that fear you turn unto me, and those that have known your testimonies.

Your faithfulness is unto all generations: you have established the earth, and it abides.

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

I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep your righteous judgments.

Accept, I beseech you, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me your judgments.

You are my hiding place and my shield: I hope in your word.

Uphold me according unto your word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.

My flesh trembles for fear of you; and I am afraid of your judgments.

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

My eyes fail for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.

Deal with your servant according unto your mercy, and teach me your statutes.

Therefore I esteem all your precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.

I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for your commandments.

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

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

Make your face to shine upon your servant; and teach me your statutes.

[Tsadde] Righteous are you, O LORD, and upright are your judgments.

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

I am small and despised: yet do I not forget your precepts.

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

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

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

I cried unto you; save me, and I shall keep your testimonies.

I rose before the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in your word.

You are near, O LORD; and all your commandments are truth.

[Resh] Consider my affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget your law.

Plead my cause, and deliver me: revive me according to your word.

Many are my persecutors and my enemies; yet do I not turn from your testimonies.

I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not your word.

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

I hate and abhor lying: but your law do I love.

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 has kept your testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.

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

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

[A song of ascents.] In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.

For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within you.

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.

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

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.

Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the nations, The LORD has done great things for them.

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

Lo, children are a heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

For you shall eat the labor of your hands: happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.

The LORD shall bless you out of Zion: and you shall see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

Yea, you shall see your children's children, and peace upon Israel.

Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

I wait for the LORD, my soul does wait, and in his word do I hope.

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

And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

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

Let Israel hope in the LORD from this time forth and forever.

[A song of ascents.] LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:

How he swore unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;

Arise, O LORD, into your rest; you, and the ark of your strength.

Let your priests be clothed with righteousness; and let your saints shout for joy.

If your children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon your throne forevermore.

I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.

[A song of ascents. Of David.] Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

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.

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

The LORD that made heaven and earth bless you out of Zion.

For the LORD has chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.

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

Who struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.

Who struck great nations, and slew mighty kings;

And gave their land for a heritage, a heritage unto Israel his people.

Your name, O LORD, endures forever; and your memorial, O LORD, throughout all generations.

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

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endures forever.

And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endures forever:

With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm: for his mercy endures forever.

And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endures forever:

But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endures forever.

And slew famous kings: for his mercy endures forever:

And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endures forever:

And gave their land for a heritage: 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.

Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes your little ones against the stones.

In the day when I cried you answered me, and strengthened me with strength in my soul.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me: you shall stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand shall save me.

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