Psalm 119:97–112

Mem

⁹⁷How I love your law!

The whole day it is my meditation.

⁹⁸Your commands make me wiser than my enemies,

because they^e are ever with me.

⁹⁹I have more insight than all my teachers,

for your testimonies are my meditation.

¹⁰⁰I understand more than the elders,

for I keep your precepts.

¹⁰¹I have restrained my feet from every evil way,

so that I may heed your word.

¹⁰²I have not turned aside from your ordinances,

for you have taught me.

¹⁰³How smooth^f are your words^g to my palate,

more than honey in my mouth.

¹⁰⁴From your precepts I get understanding,

therefore I hate every false way.

Nun

¹⁰⁵Your word is a lamp to my feet

and a light to my path.

¹⁰⁶I have sworn an oath and confirmed it,

to heed your righteous ordinances.^h

¹⁰⁷I am very much afflicted;

O Yahweh, revive me according to your word.

¹⁰⁸Please accept the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Yahweh,

and teach me your ordinances.

¹⁰⁹My life is in dangerⁱ continually,

yet I do not forget your law.

¹¹⁰The wicked have laid a snare for me,

yet I do not wander from your precepts.

¹¹¹I have taken as my own your testimonies forever,

for they are the joy of my heart.

¹¹²I have inclined my heart to do your statutes

forever, to the end.