Ps 119
0 Psalm 119 ALEPH.
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Blessed are they that are perfect in the way, Who walk in the law of YHWH.
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Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, That seek him with the whole heart.
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Yea, they do no unrighteousness; They walk in his ways.
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You have commanded [us] your precepts, That we should observe them diligently.
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Oh that my ways were established To observe your statutes!
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Then shall I not be put to shame, When I have respect to all your commandments.
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I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, When I learn your righteous judgments.
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I will observe your statutes: Oh forsake me not utterly. BETH.
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Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed [thereto] according to
your word.
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With my whole heart have I sought you: Oh let me not wander from your commandments.
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Your word have I laid up in my heart, That I might not sin against you.
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Blessed are you, O YHWH: Teach me your statutes.
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With my lips have I declared All the ordinances of your mouth.
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I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, As much as in all riches.
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I will meditate on your precepts, And have respect to your ways.
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I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word. GIMEL.
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Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live; So will I observe your word.
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Open you mine eyes, that I may behold Wondrous things out of your law.
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I am a sojourner in the earth: Hide not your commandments from me.
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My soul breaks for the longing That it has to your ordinances at all times.
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You have rebuked the proud that are cursed, That do wander from your commandments.
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Take away from me reproach and contempt; For I have kept your testimonies.
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Princes also sat and talked against me; [But] your servant did meditate on your statutes.
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Your testimonies also are my delight [And] my counsellors. DALETH.
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My soul cleaves to the dust: Quicken you me according to your word.
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I declared my ways, and you answered me: Teach me your statutes.
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Make me to understand the way of your precepts: So shall I meditate on your wondrous
works.
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My soul melts for heaviness: Strengthen you me according to your word.
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Remove from me the way of falsehood; And grant me your law graciously.
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I have chosen the way of faithfulness: Your ordinances have I set [before me].
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I cleave to your testimonies: O YHWH, put me not to shame.
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I will run the way of your commandments, When you shall enlarge my heart.
HE.
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Teach me, O YHWH, the way of your statutes; And I shall keep it to the end.
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Give me understanding, and I shall keep your law; Yea, I shall observe it with my
whole heart.
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Make me to go in the path of your commandments; For therein do I delight.
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Incline my heart to your testimonies, And not to covetousness.
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Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in your ways.
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Confirm to your servant your word, Which [is in order] to the fear of you.
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Turn away my reproach whereof I am afraid; For your ordinances are good.
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Behold, I have longed after your precepts: Quicken me in your righteousness.
VAV.
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Let your lovingkindnesses also come to me, O YHWH, Even your salvation, according
to your word.
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So shall I have an answer for him whom reproaches me; For I trust in your word.
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And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; For I have hoped in your ordinances.
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So shall I observe your law continually For ever and ever.
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And I shall walk at liberty; For I have sought your precepts.
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I will also speak of your testimonies before kings, And shall not be put to shame.
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And I will delight myself in your commandments, Which I have loved.
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I will lift up my hands also to your commandments, which I have loved; And I
will meditate on your statutes. ZAYIN.
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Remember the word to your servant, Because you have made me to hope.
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This is my comfort in my affliction; For your word has quickened me.
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The proud have had me greatly in derision: [Yet] have I not swerved from your law.
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I have remembered your ordinances of old, O YHWH, And have comforted myself.
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Hot indignation has taken hold upon me, Because of the wicked that forsake your law.
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Your statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage.
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I have remembered your name, O YHWH, in the night, And have observed your law.
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This I have had, Because I have kept your precepts. HHETH.
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YHWH is my portion: I have said that I would observe your words.
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I entreated your favor with my whole heart: Be merciful to me according to your word.
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I thought on my ways, And turned my feet to your testimonies.
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I made haste, and delayed not, To observe your commandments.
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The cords of the wicked have wrapped me round; [But] I have not forgotten your law.
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At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you Because of your righteous ordinances.
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I am a companion of all them that fear you, And of them that observe your precepts.
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The earth, O YHWH, is full of your lovingkindness: Teach me your statutes. TETH.
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You have dealt well with your servant, O YHWH, according to your word.
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Teach me good judgment and knowledge; For I have believed in your commandments.
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Before I was afflicted I went astray; But now I observe your word.
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You are good, and do good; Teach me your statutes.
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The proud have forged a lie against me: With my whole heart will I keep your precepts.
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Their heart is as fat as grease; But I delight in your law.
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted; That I may learn your statutes.
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The law of your mouth is better to me Than thousands of gold and silver. YODH.
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Your hands have made me and fashioned me: Give me understanding, that I may learn
your commandments.
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They that fear you shall see me and be glad, Because I have hoped in your word.
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I know, O YHWH, that your judgments are righteous, And that in faithfulness you have
afflicted me.
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Let, I pray you, your lovingkindness be for my comfort, According to your word to
your servant.
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Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; For your law is my delight.
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Let the proud be put to shame; For they have overthrown me wrongfully: [But] I will
meditate on your precepts.
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Let those that fear you turn to me; And they shall know your testimonies.
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Let my heart be perfect in your statutes, That I be not put to shame. KAPH.
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My soul faints for your salvation; [But] I hope in your word.
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Mine eyes fail for your word, While I say, When will you comfort me?
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For I am become like a wine-skin in the smoke; Yet do I not forget your statutes.
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How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on them that
persecute me?
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The proud have dug pits for me, Who are not according to your law.
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All your commandments are faithful: They persecute me wrongfully; help you me.
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They had almost consumed me upon earth; But I forsook not your precepts. LAMEDH.
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Quicken me after your lovingkindness; So shall I observe the testimony of your mouth.
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For ever, O YHWH, Your word is settled in heaven.
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Your faithfulness is to all generations: You have established the earth, and it abides.
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They abide this day according to your ordinances; For all things are your servants.
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Unless your law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
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I will never forget your precepts; For with them you have quickened me.
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I am yours, save me; For I have sought your precepts.
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The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me; [But] I will consider your testimonies.
MEM.
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I have seen an end of all perfection; [But] your commandment is exceeding broad.
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Oh how love I your law! It is my meditation all the day.
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Your commandments make me wiser than mine enemies; For they are ever with me.
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I have more understanding than all my teachers; For your testimonies are my meditation.
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I understand more than the aged, Because I have kept your precepts.
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I have refrained my feet from every evil way, That I might observe your word.
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I have not turned aside from your ordinances; For you have taught me.
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How sweet are your words to my taste! [Yea, sweeter] than honey to my mouth!
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Through your precepts I get understanding: Therefore I hate every false way.
NUN.
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Your word is a lamp to my feet, And light to my path.
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I have sworn, and have confirmed it, That I will observe your righteous ordinances.
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I am afflicted very much: Quicken me, O YHWH, according to your word.
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Accept, I beseech you, the freewill-offerings of my mouth, O YHWH, And teach
me your ordinances.
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My soul is continually in my hand; Yet do I not forget your law.
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The wicked have laid a snare for me; Yet have I not gone astray from your precepts.
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Your testimonies have I taken as a heritage for ever; For they are the rejoicing of
my heart.
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I have inclined my heart to perform your statutes For ever, even to the end.
SAMEKH.
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I hate them that are of a double mind; But your law do I love.
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You are my hiding-place and my shield: I hope in your word.
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Depart from me, you evil-doers, That I may keep the commandments of my God.
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Uphold me according to your word, that I may live; And let me not be ashamed of my
hope.
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Hold you me up, and I shall be safe, And shall have respect to your statutes continually.
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You have set at nothing all them that err from your statutes; For their deceit
is falsehood.
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You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross: Therefore I love your testimonies.
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My flesh trembles for fear of you; And I am afraid of your judgments. AYIN.
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I have done justice and righteousness: Leave me not to mine oppressors.
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Be surety for your servant for good: Let not the proud oppress me.
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Mine eyes fail for your salvation, And for your righteous word.
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Deal with your servant according to your lovingkindness, And teach me your statutes.
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I am your servant; give me understanding, That I may know your testimonies.
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It is time for YHWH to work; [For] they have made void your law.
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Therefore I love your commandments Above gold, yea, above fine gold.
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Therefore I esteem all [your] precepts concerning all [things] to be right;
[And] I hate every false way. PE.
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Your testimonies are wonderful; Therefore does my soul keep them.
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The opening of your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.
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I opened wide my mouth, and panted; For I longed for your commandments.
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Turn you to me, and have mercy upon me, As you use to do to those that love your name.
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Establish my footsteps in your word; And let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
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Redeem me from the oppression of man: So will I observe your precepts.
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Make your face to shine upon your servant; And teach me your statutes.
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Streams of water run down mine eyes, Because they observe not your law. TSADHE.
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Righteous are you, O YHWH, And upright are your judgments.
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You have commanded your testimonies in righteousness And very faithfulness.
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My zeal has consumed me, Because mine adversaries have forgotten your words.
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Your word is very pure; Therefore your servant loves it.
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I am small and despised; [Yet] do I not forget your precepts.
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Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And your law is truth.
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Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; [Yet] your commandments are my delight.
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Your testimonies are righteous for ever: Give me understanding, and I shall live.
QOPH.
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I have called with my whole heart; answer me, O YHWH: I will keep your statutes.
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I have called to you; save me, And I shall observe your testimonies.
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I anticipated the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in your words.
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Mine eyes anticipated the night-watches, That I might meditate on your word.
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Hear my voice according to your lovingkindness: Quicken me, O YHWH, according to your
ordinances.
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They draw nigh that follow after wickedness; They are far from your law.
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You are nigh, O YHWH; And all your commandments are truth.
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Of old have I known from your testimonies, That you have founded them for ever.
RESH.
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Consider mine affliction, and deliver me; For I do not forget your law.
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Plead you my cause, and redeem me: Quicken me according to your word.
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Salvation is far from the wicked; For they seek not your statutes.
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Great are your tender mercies, O YHWH: Quicken me according to your ordinances.
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Many are my persecutors and mine adversaries; [Yet] have I not swerved from your testimonies.
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I beheld the treacherous, and was grieved, Because they observe not your word.
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Consider how I love your precepts: Quicken me, O YHWH, according to your lovingkindness.
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The sum of your word is truth; And every one of your righteous ordinances [endures]
for ever. SHIN.
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Princes have persecuted me without a cause; But my heart stands in awe of your words.
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I rejoice at your word, As one that finds great spoil.
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I hate and abhor falsehood; [But] your law do I love.
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Seven times a day do I praise you, Because of your righteous ordinances.
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Great peace have they that love your law; And they have no occasion of stumbling.
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I have hoped for your salvation, O YHWH, And have done your commandments.
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My soul has observed your testimonies; And I love them exceedingly.
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I have observed your precepts and your testimonies; For all my ways are before you.
TAV.
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Let my cry come near before you, O YHWH: Give me understanding according to your word.
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Let my supplication come before you: Deliver me according to your word.
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Let my lips utter praise; For you teach me your statutes.
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Let my tongue sing of your word; For all your commandments are righteousness.
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Let your hand be ready to help me; For I have chosen your precepts.
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I have longed for your salvation, O YHWH; And your law is my delight.
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Let my soul live, and it shall praise you; And let your ordinances help me.
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I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek your servant; For I do not forget your
commandments.