Psalm 118

Psalm 118

Blessed 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…