Psalms 118

1Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.● 2Blessed are they that search his testimonies: that seek him with their whole heart.● 3For they that work iniquity, have not walked in his ways.● 4Thou hast commanded thy commandments to be kept most diligently.● 5O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications.● 6Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall look into all thy commandments.● 7I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned the judgments of thy justice.● 8I will keep thy justifications: O! do not thou utterly forsake me. BETH.● 9By what doth a young man correct his way? by observing thy words.● 10With my whole heart have I sought after thee: let me not stray from thy commandments.● 11Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against thee.● 12Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy justifications.● 13With my lips I have pronounced all the judgments of thy mouth.● 14I have been delighted in the way of thy testimonies, as in all riches.● 15I will meditate on thy commandments: and I will consider thy ways.● 16I will think of thy justifications: I will not forget thy words. GIMEL.● 17Give bountifully to thy servant, enliven me: and I shall keep thy words.● 18Open thou my eyes: and I will consider the wondrous things of thy law.● 19I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.● 20My soul hath coveted to long for thy justifications, at all times.● 21Thou hast rebuked the proud: they are cursed who decline from thy commandments.● 22Remove from me reproach and contempt: because I have sought after thy testimonies.● 23For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications.● 24For thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my counsel. DALETH.● 25My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according to thy word.● 26I have declared my ways, and thou hast heard me: teach me thy justifications.● 27Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: and I shall be exercised in thy wondrous works.● 28My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: strengthen thou me in thy words.● 29Remove from me the way of iniquity: and out of thy law have mercy on me.● 30I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments I have not forgotten.● 31I have stuck to thy testimonies, O Lord: put me not to shame.● 32I have run the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge my heart. HE.● 33Set before me for a law the way of thy justifications, O Lord: and I will always seek after it.● 34Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; and I will keep it with my whole heart.● 35Lead me into the path of thy commandments; for this same I have desired.● 36Incline my heart into thy testimonies and not to covetousness.● 37Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me in thy way.● 38Establish thy word to thy servant, in thy fear.● 39Turn away my reproach, which I have apprehended: for thy judgments are delightful.● 40Behold I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy justice. VAU.● 41Let thy mercy also come upon me, O Lord: thy salvation according to thy word.● 42So shall I answer them that reproach me in any thing; that I have trusted in thy words.● 43And take not thou the word of truth utterly out of my mouth: for in thy words, I have hoped exceedingly.● 44So shall I always keep thy law, for ever and ever.● 45And I walked at large: because I have sought after thy commandments.● 46And I spoke of thy testimonies before kings: and I was not ashamed.● 47I meditated also on thy commandments, which I loved.● 48And I lifted up my hands to thy commandments, which I loved: and I was exercised in thy justifications. ZAIN.● 49Be thou mindful of thy word to thy servant, in which thou hast given me hope.● 50This hath comforted me in my humiliation: because thy word hath enlivened me.● 51The proud did iniquitously altogether: but I declined not from thy law.● 52I remembered, O Lord, thy judgments of old: and I was comforted.● 53A fainting hath taken hold of me, because of the wicked that forsake thy law.● 54Thy justifications were the subject of my song, in the place of my pilgrimage.● 55In the night I have remembered thy name, O Lord: and have kept thy law.● 56This happened to me: because I sought after thy justifications. HETH.● 57O Lord, my portion, I have said, I would keep thy law.● 58I entreated thy face with all my heart: have mercy on me according to thy word.● 59I have thought on my ways: and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.● 60I am ready, and am not troubled: that I may keep thy commandments.● 61The cords of the wicked have encompassed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.● 62I rose at midnight to give praise to thee; for the judgments of thy justification.● 63I am a partaker with all them that fear thee, and that keep thy commandments.● 64The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy justifications. TETH.● 65Thou hast done well with thy servant, O Lord, according to thy word.● 66Teach me goodness and discipline and knowledge; for I have believed thy commandments.● 67Before I was humbled I offended; therefore have I kept thy word.● 68Thou art good; and in thy goodness teach me thy justifications.● 69The iniquity of the proud hath been multiplied over me: but I will seek thy commandments with my whole heart.● 70Their heart is curdled like milk: but I have meditated on thy law.● 71It is good for me that thou hast humbled me, that I may learn thy justifications.● 72The law of thy mouth is good to me, above thousands of gold and silver. JOD.● 73Thy hands have made me and formed me: give me understanding, and I will learn thy commandments.● 74They that fear thee shall see me, and shall be glad : because I have greatly hoped in thy words.● 75I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are equity: and in thy truth thou hast humbled me.● 76O! let thy mercy be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.● 77Let thy tender mercies come unto me, and I shall live: for thy law is my meditation.● 78Let the proud be ashamed, because they have done unjustly towards me: but I will be employed in thy commandments.● 79Let them that fear thee turn to me: and they that know thy testimonies.● 80Let my heart be undefiled in thy justifications, that I may not be confounded. CAPH.● 81My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: and in thy word I have very much hoped.● 82My eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort me?● 83For I am become like a bottle in the frost: I have not forgotten thy justifications.● 84How many are the days of thy servant: when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?● 85The wicked have told me fables: but not as thy law.● 86All thy statutes are truth: they have persecuted me unjustly, do thou help me.● 87They had almost made an end of me upon earth: but I have not forsaken thy commandments.● 88Quicken thou me according to thy mercy: and I shall keep the testimonies of thy mouth. LAMED.● 89For ever, O Lord, thy word standeth firm in heaven.● 90Thy truth unto all generations: thou hast founded the earth, and it continueth.● 91By thy ordinance the day goeth on: for all things serve thee.● 92Unless thy law had been my meditation, I had then perhaps perished in my abjection.● 93Thy justifications I will never forget: for by them thou hast given me life.● 94I am thine, save thou me: for I have sought thy justifications.● 95The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I have understood thy testimonies.● 96I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is exceeding broad. MEM.● 97O how have I loved thy law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the day.● 98Through thy commandment, thou hast made me wiser than my enemies: for it is ever with me.● 99I have understood more than all my teachers: because thy testimonies are my meditation.● 100I have had understanding above ancients: because I have sought thy commandments.● 101I have restrained my feet from every evil way: that I may keep thy words.● 102I have not declined from thy judgments, because thou hast set me a law.● 103How sweet are thy words to my palate! more than honey to my mouth.● 104By thy commandments I have had understanding: therefore have I hated every way of iniquity. NUN.● 105Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths.● 106I have sworn and am determined to keep the judgments of thy justice.● 107I have been humbled, O Lord, exceedingly: quicken thou me according to thy word.● 108The free offerings of my mouth make acceptable, O Lord: and teach me thy judgments.● 109My soul is continually in my hands: and I have not forgotten thy law.● 110Sinners have laid a snare for me: but I have not erred from thy precepts.● 111I have purchased thy testimonies for an inheritance for ever: because they are the joy of my heart.● 112I have inclined my heart to do thy justifications for ever, for the reward. SAMECH.● 113I have hated the unjust: and have loved thy law.● 114Thou art my helper and my protector: and in thy word I have greatly hoped.● 115Depart from me, ye malignant: and I will search the commandments of my God.● 116Uphold me according to thy word, and I shall live: and let me not be confounded in my expectation.● 117Help me, and I shall be saved: and I will meditate always on thy justifications.● 118Thou hast despised all them that fall off from thy judgments; for their thought is unjust.● 119I have accounted all the sinners of the earth prevaricators: therefore have I loved thy testimonies.● 120Pierce thou my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy judgments. AIN.● 121I have done judgment and justice: give me not up to them that slander me.● 122Uphold thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me.● 123My eyes have fainted after thy salvation: and for the word of thy justice.● 124Deal with thy servant according to thy mercy: and teach me thy justifications.● 125I am thy servant: give me understanding that I may know thy testimonies.● 126It is time, O Lord, to do: they have dissipated thy law.● 127Therefore have I loved thy commandments above gold and the topaz.● 128Therefore was I directed to all thy commandments: I have hated all wicked ways. PHE.● 129Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore my soul hath sought them.● 130The declaration of thy words giveth light: and giveth understanding to little ones.● 131I opened my mouth, and panted: because I longed for thy commandments.● 132Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me according to the judgment of them that love thy name.● 133Direct my steps according to thy word: and let no iniquity have dominion over me.● 134Redeem me from the calumnies of men: that I may keep thy commandments.● 135Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: and teach me thy justifications.● 136My eyes have sent forth springs of water: because they have not kept thy law. SADE.● 137Thou art just, O Lord: and thy judgment is right.● 138Thou hast commanded justice thy testimonies: and thy truth exceedingly.● 139My zeal hath made me pine away: because my enemies forgot thy words.● 140Thy word is exceedingly refined: and thy servant hath loved it.● 141I am very young and despised; but I forget not thy justifications.● 142Thy justice is justice for ever: and thy law is the truth.● 143Trouble and anguish have found me: thy commandments are my meditation.● 144Thy testimonies are justice for ever: give me understanding, and I shall live. COPH.● 145I cried with my whole heart, hear me, O Lord: I will seek thy justifications.● 146I cried unto thee, save me: that I may keep thy commandments.● 147I prevented the dawning of the day, and cried: because in thy words I very much hoped.● 148My eyes to thee have prevented the morning: that I might meditate on thy words.● 149Hear thou my voice, O Lord, according to thy mercy: and quicken me according to thy judgment.● 150They that persecute me have drawn nigh to iniquity; but they are gone far off from thy law.● 151Thou art near, O Lord: and all thy ways are truth.● 152I have known from the beginning concerning thy testimonies: that thou hast founded them for ever. RES.● 153See my humiliation and deliver me for I have not forgotten thy law.● 154Judge my judgment and redeem me: quicken thou me for thy word's sake.● 155Salvation is far from sinners; because they have not sought thy justifications.● 156Many, O Lord, are thy mercies: quicken me according to thy judgment.● 157Many are they that persecute me and afflict me; but I have not declined from thy testimonies.● 158I beheld the transgressors, and pined away; because they kept not thy word.● 159Behold I have loved thy commandments, O Lord; quicken me thou in thy mercy.● 160The beginning of thy words is truth: all the judgments of thy justice are for ever. SIN.● 161Princes have persecuted me without cause: and my heart hath been in awe of thy words.● 162I will rejoice at thy words, as one that hath found great spoil.● 163I have hated and abhorred iniquity; but I have loved thy law.● 164Seven times a day I have given praise to thee, for the judgments of thy justice.● 165Much peace have they that love thy law, and to them there is no stumbling. block.● 166I looked for thy salvation, O Lord: and I loved thy commandments.● 167My soul hath kept thy testimonies and hath loved them exceedingly.● 168I have kept thy commandments and thy testimonies: because all my ways are in thy sight. TAU.● 169Let my supplication, O Lord, come near in thy sight: give me understanding according to thy word.● 170Let my request come in before thee; deliver thou me according to thy word.● 171My lips shall utter a hymn, when thou shalt teach me thy justifications.● 172My tongue shall pronounce thy word: because all thy commandments are justice.● 173Let thy hand be with me to save me; for I have chosen thy precepts.● 174I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my meditation.● 175My soul shall live and shall praise thee: and thy judgments shall help me.● 176I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: seek thy servant, because I have not forgotten thy commandments.●