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1 I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, O Jehovah, I will sing praises.
2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
3 I will set no wicked speech before my eyes. I hate the work of those who turn aside. It will not cleave to me. 4 A perverse heart will depart from me. I will know no evil thing.
5 He who slanders his neighbor secretly, I will destroy him. He who has a high look and a proud heart I will not endure.
6 My eyes will be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will minister to me.
7 He who works deceit will not dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood will not be established before my eyes.
8 Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of wickedness from the city of Jehovah.
102 1 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah and let my cry come to you. 2 Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Incline your ear to me. Answer me speedily in the day when I call.
3 Because my days consume away like smoke and my bones are burned as a firebrand. 4 My heart is struck like grass and withered, because I forget to eat my bread. 5 Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cling to my flesh.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places. 7 I watch and have become like a sparrow that is alone upon the house-top.
8 My enemies reproach me all the day. Those who are mad against me curse by me. 9 Because I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping, 10 because of your indignation and your wrath. Because you have taken me up and cast me away.
11 My days are like a shadow that declines and I am withered like grass.
12 But you, O Jehovah, will abide everlasting and your memorial to all generations. 13 You will arise and have mercy upon Zion, because it is time to have pity upon her, yes, the set time has come. 14 Because your servants take pleasure in her stones and have pity upon her dust.
15 So the nations will fear the name of Jehovah and all the kings of the earth your glory. 16 Because Jehovah has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.
17 He has regarded the prayer of the destitute and has not despised their prayer.
18 This will be written for the generation to come. And a people which will be created will praise Jehovah.
19 Because he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven Jehovah beheld the earth, 20 to hear the sighing of the prisoner, to loose those who are appointed to death, 21 that men may declare the name of Jehovah in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem, 22 when the peoples are gathered together and the kingdoms to serve Jehovah.
23 He weakened my strength in the way. He shortened my days. 24 I said, O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.
25 You laid of old the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of your hands. 26 They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will grow old like a garment. As a raiment you will change them and they will be changed, 27 but you are the same and your years will have no end.
28 The sons of your servants will continue and their seed will be established before you.
103 1 Praise Jehovah, O my soul and all that is within me, praise his holy name.
2 Praise Jehovah, O my soul and do not forget all his benefits, 3 who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases, 4 who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies, 5 who satisfies your desire with good things and your youth is renewed like the eagle.
6 Jehovah executes righteous acts and judgments for all who are oppressed. 7 He made known his ways to Moses, his practices to the sons of Israel. 8 Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness.
9 He will not always contend, nor will he keep it everlasting. 10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
11 Because as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him. 12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
13 Like as a father pities his sons, So Jehovah pities those who fear him. 14 Because he knows our frame. He remembers that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 16 Because the wind passes over it and it has gone and the place of it will know it no more.
17 But the loving kindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who fear him and his righteousness to son's sons, 18 to such as keep his covenant and to those who remember his precepts to do them.
19 Jehovah has established his throne in the heavens and his kingdom rules over all.
20 Praise Jehovah, you* his messengers, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, listening to the voice of his word.
21 Praise Jehovah, all you* his hosts, you* ministers of his, who do his pleasure. 22 Praise Jehovah, all you* his works in all places of his dominion.
Praise Jehovah, O my soul.
104 1 Praise Jehovah, O my soul.
O Jehovah my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty, 2 who covers yourself with light as with a garment, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, 3 who lays the beams of his chambers in the waters, who makes the clouds his chariot, who walks upon the wings of the wind, 4 who makes his messengers spirits, his ministers a flame of fire, 5 who laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be shaken everlasting and forever.
6 You covered it with the deep as with a raiment. The waters stood above the mountains. 7 At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hastened away.
8 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which you had founded for them. 9 You have set a bound that they may not pass over, that they do not turn again to cover the earth.
10 He sends forth springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains. 11 They give drink to every beast of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
12 The birds of the heavens have their habitation by them. They sing among the branches. 13 He waters the mountains from his chambers. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle and herbage for the service of man, that he may bring forth food out of the earth, 15 and wine that gladdens the heart of man and oil to make his face to shine and bread that strengthens man's heart.
16 The trees of Jehovah are full, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted, 17 where the birds make their nests. As for the stork, the fir trees are her house. 18 The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock-baggers.
19 He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows his going down. 20 You make darkness and it is night, during which all the beasts of the forest creep forth.
21 The young lions roar after their prey and seek their food from God. 22 The sun arises; they get away and lie down in their dens.
23 Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until the evening.
24 O Jehovah, how great are your works! You have made them all in wisdom. The earth is full of your riches.
25 Yonder is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable creeping things, both small and great beasts. 26 There go the ships. There is leviathan, whom you have formed to play in it.
27 These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season. 28 You give to them, they gather. You open your hand, they are satisfied with good.
29 You hide your face, they are troubled. You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
30 You send forth your Spirit, they are created and you renew the face of the ground.
31 Let the glory of Jehovah endure everlasting. Let Jehovah rejoice in his works, 32 who looks on the earth and it trembles. He touches the mountains and they smoke.
33 I will sing to Jehovah as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being. 34 Let your meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Jehovah.
35 Let sinners be consumed out of the earth and let the wicked be no more.
Praise Jehovah, O my soul. Praise Jehovah.
105 1 O give thanks to Jehovah, call upon his name. Make known among the peoples his practices. 2 Sing to him, sing praises to him. Talk of all his marvelous works.
3 Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Jehovah rejoice. 4 Seek Jehovah and his strength. Seek his face continually. 5 Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders and the judgments of his mouth, 6 O you* seed of Abraham his servant, you* sons of Jacob, his chosen. 7 He is Jehovah our God. His judgments are in all the earth.
8 He has remembered his covenant everlasting, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, 9 which he made with Abraham and his oath to Isaac, 10 and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, to Israel for an everlasting covenant, 11 saying, To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your* inheritance, 12 when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few and travelers in it.
13 And they went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people. 14 He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes, 15 saying, Touch not my anointed men and do my prophets no harm.
16 And he called for a famine upon the land. He broke the whole staff of bread. 17 He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a servant.
18 They hurt his feet with fetters. He was placed in iron. 19 Until the time that his word happened, the word of Jehovah tried him.
20 The king sent and released him, even the ruler of peoples and let him go free. 21 He made him lord of his house and ruler of all his substance, 22 to bind his rulers at his pleasure and teach his elders wisdom.
23 Israel also came into Egypt and Jacob traveled in the land of Ham.
24 And he increased his people greatly and made them stronger than their adversaries. 25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.
26 He sent Moses his servant and Aaron whom he had chosen. 27 They set among them his signs and wonders in the land of Ham.
28 He sent darkness and made it dark. And they rebelled against his words.
29 He turned their waters into blood and killed their fish. 30 Their land swarmed with frogs in the chambers of their kings.
31 He spoke and there came swarms of flies and lice in all their borders.
32 He gave them hail for rain and flaming fire in their land. 33 He also killed* their vines and their fig trees and broke the trees of their borders.
34 He spoke and the locust came and the grasshopper and that without number, 35 and ate up every herb in their land and ate up the fruit of their ground. 36 He also killed* all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
37 And he brought them forth with silver and gold and there was not a feeble soul among his tribes. 38 Egypt was glad when they departed, because the fear of them had fallen upon them.
39 He spread a cloud for a covering and fire to give light in the night. 40 They asked and he brought quails and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
41 He opened the rock and waters gushed out. They ran in the dry places like a river.
42 Because he remembered his holy word and Abraham his servant. 43 And he brought out his people with joy and his chosen with singing.
44 And he gave them the lands of the nations and they took the labor of the peoples in possession, 45 that they might keep his statutes and observe his laws. Praise Jehovah.
106 1 Praise Jehovah. O give thanks to Jehovah, because he is good, because his loving kindness is everlasting. 2 Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah, or show forth all his praise?
3 Those who keep justice are fortunate and he who does righteousness at all times.
4 Remember me, O Jehovah, with the favor that you bear to your people. O visit me with your salvation, 5 that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
6 We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.
7 Our fathers did not understand your wonders in Egypt. They did not remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
9 He also rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up. So he led them through the depths as through a wilderness. 10 And he saved them from the hand of him who hated them and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
11 And the waters covered their adversaries; there was not one of them left. 12 Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.
13 They soon forgot his works. They did not wait for his counsel, 14 but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness and challenged God in the desert. 15 And he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
16 They also envied Moses in the camp and Aaron the holy ones of Jehovah. 17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the company of Abiram.
18 And a fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked men.
19 They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped a molten image. 20 Thus they changed their glory for the likeness of an ox that eats grass.
21 They forgot God their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt, 22 wondrous works in the land of Ham and fearful things by the Red Sea.
23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy.
24 Yes, they despised the desirable land. They did not believe his word, 25 but murmured in their tents and did not listen to the voice of Jehovah.
26 Therefore he swore to them, that he would overthrow them in the wilderness, 27 and that he would overthrow their seed among the nations and scatter them in the lands.
28 They also joined themselves to Baal of Peor and ate the sacrifices of the dead. 29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their practices and the plague broke in upon them.
30 Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment and so the plague was restrained. 31 And that was reckoned to him for righteousness to generation and generation until everlasting.
32 They also angered him at the waters of Meribah, so that it went ill with Moses because of them, 33 because they were rebellious against his spirit and he spoke ill-advisedly with his lips.
34 They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them, 35 but mingled themselves with the nations and learned their works, 36 and served their idols, which became a snare to them.
37 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons, 38 and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. And the land was polluted with blood.
39 Thus they were defiled with their works and played the prostitute in their practices.
40 Therefore the wrath of Jehovah was kindled against his people and he detested his inheritance. 41 And he gave them into the hand of the nations. And those who hated them, ruled over them. 42 Their enemies also oppressed them and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
43 Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their counsel and were brought low in their iniquity.
44 Nevertheless he regarded their distress when he heard their cry. 45 And he remembered his covenant for them and relented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. 46 He also made them to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.
47 Save us, O Jehovah our God and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name and to triumph in your praise.
48 Praise Jehovah, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, Truly. Praise Jehovah.
107 1 O give thanks to Jehovah. Because he is good, because his loving kindness is everlasting. 2 Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary, 3 and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.
4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city of habitation. 5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
6 Then they cried to Jehovah in their trouble and he delivered them out of their distresses. 7 He also led them by a straight way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
8 O that men would praise Jehovah for his loving kindness and for his wonderful works to the sons of men!
9 Because he satisfies the longing soul and he fills the hungry soul with good, 10 even those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron, 11 because they rebelled against the words of God and scorned the counsel of the Most High.
12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down and there was none to help.
13 Then they cried to Jehovah in their trouble and he saved them out of their distresses. 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke their bonds apart.
15 O that men would praise Jehovah for his loving kindness and for his wonderful works to the sons of men!
16 Because he has broken the gates of brass and cut the bars of iron apart. 17 Fools are afflicted because of their transgression and because of their iniquities. 18 Their soul abhors all manner of food and they draw near to the gates of death.
19 Then they cry to Jehovah in their trouble and he saves them out of their distresses. 20 He sends his word and heals them and delivers them from their destructions.
21 O that men would praise Jehovah for his loving kindness and for his wonderful works to the sons of men! 22 And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare his works with singing.
23 Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters, 24 these men see the works of Jehovah and his wonders in the deep.
25 For he commands and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up the waves of it. 26 They mountain up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble. 27 They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wits' end.
28 Then they cry to Jehovah in their trouble and he brings them out of their distresses. 29 He makes the storm a calm, so that the waves of it are still. 30 Then they are glad because they are quiet, so he brings them to their desired haven.
31 O that men would praise Jehovah for his loving kindness and for his wonderful works to the sons of men! 32 Let them also exalt him in the assembly of the people and praise him in the seat of the elders.
33 He turns rivers into a wilderness and water springs into a thirsty ground, 34 a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
35 He turns a wilderness into a pool of water and a dry land into water springs. 36 And there he makes the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city of habitation, 37 and sow fields and plant vineyards and get fruits of increase.
38 He also graces them, so that they are multiplied greatly and he does not allow their cattle to decrease.
39 Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble and sorrow. 40 He pours contempt upon rulers and makes them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.
41 Yet he sets a needy man on high from affliction and makes him families like a flock. 42 The upright will see it and be glad. And all unrighteousness will stop her mouth.
43 He who is wise will give heed to these things and they will consider the loving kindnesses of Jehovah.
108 1 My heart is fixed, O God, I will sing, yes, I will sing praises, even with my glory. 2 Awake, psaltery and harp. I myself will awaken the dawn.
3 I will give thanks to you, O Jehovah, among the peoples and I will sing praises to you among the nations.
4 Because your loving kindness is great above the heavens and your truth is to the skies.
5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens and your glory above all the earth. 6 That your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand and answer us.
7 God has spoken in his holiness. I will rejoice. I will divide Shechem and measure out the valley of Succoth. 8 Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense of my head. Judah is my scepter.
9 Moab is my wash pot. I will cast my shoe upon Edom. I will shout over Philistia.
10 Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom? 11 Have you not cast us off, O God? And you do not go forth, O God, with our armies. 12 Give us help against the adversary, for vain is the help of man.
13 Through God we will do valiantly, for he it is who will tread down our adversaries.
109 1 Do not hold your peace, O God of my praise, 2 because they have opened against me the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue. 3 They have also encompassed me about with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause.
4 They are my adversaries instead of my love, but I make prayer. 5 And they have rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my love.
6 Set a wicked man over him and let an adversary stand at his right hand. 7 When he is judged, let him come out guilty and let his prayer be turned into sin. 8 Let his days be few and let another take his office.
9 Let his sons be fatherless and his wife a widow. 10 Let his sons be vagabonds and beg and let them seek out of their desolate places. 11 Let a creditor exact all that he has and let strangers make spoil of his labor.
12 Let there be none to prolong kindness to him, nor let there be any to have pity on his fatherless sons. 13 Let his posterity be cut off. Let their name be blotted out in the following generation.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah and do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth, 16 because he did not remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man and the broken in heart, to kill.
17 Yes, he loved cursing and it came to him. And he did not delight in blessing and it was far from him.
18 He also clothed himself with cursing as with his garment and it came into his inward parts like water and like oil into his bones. 19 Let it be to him as the garments with which he covers himself and for the belt with which he is girded continually.
20 This is the reward of my adversaries from Jehovah and of those who speak evil against my soul.
21 But deal with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for your name's sake. Because your loving kindness is good, deliver me, 22 because I am poor and needy and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I have gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust. 24 My knees are weak through fasting and my flesh fails of fatness.
25 I also have become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.
26 Help me, O Jehovah my God. O save me according to your loving kindness, 27 that they may know that this is your hand, that you, Jehovah, have done it.
28 Let them curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be put to shame, but your servant will rejoice.
29 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor and let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
30 I will give great thanks to Jehovah with my mouth. Yes, I will praise him among the multitude. 31 Because he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.
110 1 Jehovah says to my Lord, Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. 2 Jehovah will send forth the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies. 3 Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning you have the dew of your youth.
4 Jehovah has sworn and will not repent. You are a everlasting priest after the order of Melchizedek.
5 The Lord at your right hand will strike through kings in the day of his wrath. 6 He will judge among the nations. He will fill with dead bodies. He will strike through the head in many countries. 7 He will drink of the brook in the way, therefore he will lift up the head.
111 1 Praise Jehovah. I will give thanks to Jehovah with my whole heart, in the council of the upright and in the congregation.
2 The works of Jehovah are great, sought out by all those who have pleasure in it.
3 His work is honor and majesty and his righteousness endures everlasting.
4 He has made his wonderful works to be remembered. Jehovah is gracious and merciful.
5 He has given food to those who fear him. He will ever be mindful of his everlasting covenant.
6 He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the heritage of the nations.
7 The works of his hands are truth and justice. All his precepts are sure. 8 They are established everlasting and forever. They are done in truth and uprightness.
9 He has sent redemption to his people. He has commanded his everlasting covenant. Holy and reverend is his name.
10 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom and all who act accordingly have a good understanding.
His praise endures forever.
112 1 Praise Jehovah. The man is fortunate who fears Jehovah, who delights greatly in his commandments. 2 His seed will be mighty upon earth. The generation of the upright will be blessed.
3 Wealth and riches are in his house and his righteousness endures forever. 4 To the upright there arises light in the darkness. He is gracious and merciful and righteous.
5 It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment, 6 because he will never be moved. The righteous will be in everlasting remembrance.
7 He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is fixed, trusting in Jehovah. 8 His heart is established, he will not be afraid, even until he looks over his adversaries.
9 He has scattered, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
10 A wicked man will see it and be grieved. He will gnash with his teeth and melt away. The desire of wicked men will perish.
113 1 Praise Jehovah. Praise him, O you* servants of Jehovah. Praise the name of Jehovah. 2 Praised is the name of Jehovah from this time forth and everlasting. 3 From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same Jehovah's name is to be praised.
4 Jehovah is high above all nations and his glory above the heavens. 5 Who is like Jehovah our God who has his seat on high, 6 and yet looks upon the low things in heaven and in the earth.
7 He raises up a poor man out of the dust and lifts up a needy man from the dunghill, 8 that he may set him with rulers, even with the rulers of his people. 9 He makes the barren woman to keep house, a joyful mother of sons.
Praise Jehovah.
114 1 When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, 2 Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
3 The sea saw it and fled. The Jordan was driven back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
5 What is it to you, O you the sea, that you flee? You Jordan, that you turn back? 6 You* mountains, that you* skip like rams, you* little hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, 8 who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
115 1 Not to us, O Jehovah, not to us, but to your name give glory. Upon your loving kindness and upon your truth's sake.
2 Why should the nations say, Where is their God now? 3 But our God is in the heavens. He has done whatever he pleased.
4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 5 They have mouths, but they do not speak. They have eyes, but they do not see. 6 They have ears, but they do not hear. They have noses, but they do not smell. 7 They have hands, but they do not handle. They have feet, but they do not walk, nor do they speak through their throat.
8 Those who make them will be like them. Yes, everyone who trusts in them.
9 O Israel, trust in Jehovah. He is their help and their shield. 10 O house of Aaron, trust in Jehovah. He is their help and their shield. 11 You* who fear Jehovah, trust in Jehovah. He is their help and their shield.
12 Jehovah has been mindful of us. He will bless, he will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.
13 He will bless those who fear Jehovah, both small and great. 14 Jehovah increase you* more and more, you* and your* sons.
15 Blessed are you* of Jehovah who made heaven and earth.
16 The heavens are the heavens of Jehovah, but the earth he has given to the sons of men.
17 The dead do not praise Jehovah, nor any who go down into silence, 18 but we will praise Jehovah from this time forth and everlasting.
Praise Jehovah.
116 1 I love Jehovah because he hears my voice and my supplications. 2 Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call as long as I live.
3 The cords of death encompassed me and the pains of Sheol found me. I found trouble and sorrow. 4 Then I called upon the name of Jehovah. O Jehovah, I beseech you, deliver my soul.
5 Gracious is Jehovah and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful. 6 Jehovah preserves the simple. I was brought low and he saved me.
7 Return to your rest, O my soul, because Jehovah has dealt bountifully with you. 8 Because you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from falling.
9 I will walk before Jehovah in the land of the living.
10 I believed, because I have spoken, but I was greatly afflicted. 11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
12 What shall I render to Jehovah for all his benefits toward me? 13 I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of Jehovah. 14 I will pay my vows to Jehovah, yes, in the presence of all his people.
15 Precious in the sight of Jehovah is the death of his holy ones. 16 O Jehovah, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have loosed my bonds.
17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the name of Jehovah. 18 I will pay my vows to Jehovah, yes, in the presence of all his people, 19 in the courts of Jehovah's house, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem.
Praise Jehovah.
117 1 O praise Jehovah, all you* Gentiles, laud him, all you* peoples.
2 Because his loving kindness is great toward us and the truth of Jehovah is everlasting.
Praise Jehovah.
118 1 O give thanks to Jehovah, because he is good, because his loving kindness is everlasting.
2 Let Israel now say that his loving kindness is everlasting.
3 Let the house of Aaron now say that his loving kindness is everlasting.
4 Let those now who fear Jehovah say that his loving kindness is everlasting.
5 I called upon Jehovah out of my distress. Jehovah answered me upon a large place. 6 Jehovah is on my side, I will not fear. What can man do to me? 7 Jehovah is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look upon those who hate me.
8 It is better to take refuge in Jehovah than to put confidence in man. 9 It is better to take refuge in Jehovah than to put confidence in rulers.
10 All nations encompassed me around. I will cut them off in the name of Jehovah. 11 They encompassed me around, yes, they encompassed me around. I will cut them off in the name of Jehovah. 12 They encompassed me around like bees. They are quenched as the fire of thorns. I will cut them off in the name of Jehovah.
13 You thrust greatly at me that I might fall, but Jehovah helped me.
14 Jehovah is my strength and song and he has become my salvation. 15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous.
The right hand of Jehovah does valiantly. 16 The right hand of Jehovah is exalted. The right hand of Jehovah does valiantly.
17 I will not die, but live and declare the works of Jehovah. 18 Jehovah has disciplined me greatly, but he has not given me over to death.
19 Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Jehovah. 20 This is the gate of Jehovah. The righteous will enter into it. 21 I will give thanks to you, because you have answered me and have become my salvation.
22 The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner. 23 This is from Jehovah. It is marvelous in our eyes.
24 This is the day which Jehovah has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.
25 Save now, we beseech you, O Jehovah. O Jehovah, we beseech you, send now prosperity.
26 He who comes in the name of Jehovah is blessed. We have blessed you* out of the house of Jehovah.
27 Jehovah is God and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar. 28 You are my God and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you.
29 O give thanks to Jehovah, because he is good, because his loving kindness is everlasting.
119 1 Those who are perfect in the way, who walk in the law of Jehovah are fortunate. 2 Those who keep his testimonies, that seek him with the whole heart are fortunate. 3 Yes, they do no unrighteousness. They walk in his ways. 4 You have commanded your precepts, that we should observe them diligently.
5 O that my ways were established to observe your statutes! 6 Then I will not be put to shame when I have respect for all your commandments. 7 I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart when I learn your righteous judgments. 8 I will observe your statutes. O forsake me not utterly.
9 With what will a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to your word. 10 I have sought you with my whole heart. O do not let me wander from your commandments. 11 I have laid your word up in my heart that I might not sin against you.
12 Praise you, O Jehovah. Teach me your statutes. 13 I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth with my lips. 14 I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies as much as in all riches. 15 I will meditate on your precepts and have respect for your ways. 16 I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.
17 Deal bountifully with your servant that I may live, so I will observe your word. 18 Open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. 19 I am a traveler in the earth. Do not hide your commandments from me. 20 My soul breaks for the longing that it has to your ordinances at all times. 21 You have rebuked the proud, who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.
22 Take away from me reproach and contempt, because I have kept your testimonies. 23 Rulers also sat and talked against me, but your servant meditated on your statutes.
24 Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors. 25 My soul clings to the dust. Give me life according to your word. 26 I declared my ways and you answered me. Teach me your statutes. 27 Make me to understand the way of your precepts, so I will meditate on your wondrous works.
28 My soul melts for heaviness. Strengthen me according to your word. 29 Remove from me the way of falsehood and grant me your law graciously.
30 I have chosen the way of faithfulness. I have set your ordinances. 31 I cling to your testimonies. O Jehovah, put me not to shame. 32 I will run the way of your commandments because you will enlarge my heart.
33 Teach me, O Jehovah, the way of your statutes and I will keep it to the end. 34 Give me understanding and I will keep your law, yes, I will observe it with my whole heart. 35 Make me to go in the path of your commandments, because I do delight in it. 36 Incline my heart to your testimonies and not to covetousness.
37 Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity and give me life in your ways. 38 Confirm to your servant your word, which is for the fear of you. 39 Turn away my reproach of which I am afraid, because your ordinances are good. 40 Behold, I have longed after your precepts. Give me life in your righteousness.
41 Let your loving kindnesses also come to me, O Jehovah, even your salvation, according to your word. 42 So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, because I trust in your word.
43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, because I have hoped in your ordinances. 44 So shall I observe your law continually everlasting and forever. 45 And I will walk at liberty, because I have sought your precepts.
46 I also will speak of your testimonies before kings and will not be put to shame. 47 And I will delight myself in your commandments, which I have loved. 48 I will also lift up my hands to your commandments, which I have loved and I will meditate on your statutes.
49 Remember the word to your servant, because you have made me to hope. 50 This is my comfort in my affliction, because your word has revived me.
51 The proud scoff at me greatly, yet I have not swerved from your law. 52 I have remembered your everlasting ordinances, O Jehovah and have comforted myself. 53 Hot indignation has taken hold upon me because of the wicked who forsake your law.
54 Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. 55 I have remembered your name, O Jehovah, in the night and have observed your law. 56 I have had this because I have kept your precepts.
57 Jehovah is my portion; I have said that I would observe your words. 58 I entreated your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word. 59 I thought on my ways and turned my feet to your testimonies. 60 I made haste and delayed not, to observe your commandments.
61 The cords of the wicked have wrapped me around, but I have not forgotten your law.
62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you because of your righteous ordinances. 63 I am a companion of all those who fear you and of those who observe your precepts.
64 The earth, O Jehovah, is full of your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes. 65 You have dealt well with your servant, O Jehovah, according to your word.
66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge, because I have believed in your commandments.
67 Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I observe your word. 68 You are good and do good. Teach me your statutes.
69 The proud have forged a lie against me. I will keep your precepts with my whole heart. 70 Their heart is like fat like grease, but I delight in your law.
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes. 72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
73 Your hands have made me and fashioned me. Give me understanding that I may learn your commandments. 74 Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have hoped in your word. 75 I know, O Jehovah, that your judgments are righteous and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
76 I beseech you, let your loving kindness be for my comfort according to your word to your servant. 77 Let your tender mercies come to me that I may live, because your law is my delight.
78 Let the proud be put to shame, because they have overthrown me wrongfully.
I will meditate on your precepts. 79 Let those who fear you turn to me and they will know your testimonies. 80 Let my heart be perfect in your statutes that I am not put to shame. 81 My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word. 82 My eyes fail for your word, while I say, When will you comfort me? 83 Because I have become like a wine-skin in the smoke. Yet I do not forget your statutes.
84 How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me? 85 The proud have dug pits for me, who are not according to your law. 86 All your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me. 87 They had almost consumed me upon earth, but I did not forsake your precepts. 88 Revive me according to your loving kindness, so I will observe the testimony of your mouth.
89 Everlasting, O Jehovah, your word is settled in heaven. 90 Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth and it abides. 91 They abide this day according to your ordinances, because all things are your servants.
92 Unless your law had been my delight, I should then have perished in my affliction. 93 I will never forget your precepts, because you have given me life with them. 94 I am yours. Save me, because I have sought your precepts. 95 The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your testimonies.
96 I have seen an end of all perfection. Your commandment is exceedingly broad. 97 O how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.
98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, because they are everlasting with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, because your testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the aged because I have kept your precepts.
101 I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word. 102 I have not turned aside from your ordinances, because you have taught me.
103 How sweet are your words to my taste, than honey to my mouth! 104 Through your precepts I get understanding. Therefore I hate every false way.
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and light to my path. 106 I have sworn and have confirmed it, that I will observe your righteous ordinances.
107 I am afflicted very much. Revive me, O Jehovah, according to your word. 108 I beseech you, accept the free-will offerings of my mouth, O Jehovah and teach me your ordinances. 109 My soul is continually in my hand, yet I do not forget your law. 110 The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I have not gone-astray from your precepts.
111 I have taken your testimonies as a heritage everlasting, because they are the rejoicing of my heart.
112 I have inclined my heart to perform your everlasting statutes, even to the end.
113 I hate those who are of a double mind, but I love your law. 114 You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word. 115 Depart from me, you* evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
116 Uphold me according to your word, that I may live and do not let me be ashamed of my hope. 117 Hold me up and I will be safe and will have respect for your statutes continually.
118 You have tossed-aside all those who go astray from your statutes, because their deceit is falsehood. 119 You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies.
120 My flesh trembles for fear of you and I am afraid of your judgments. 121 I have done justice and righteousness. Do not leave me to my oppressors. 122 Be a surety for your servant for good. Do not let the proud oppress me. 123 My eyes fail for your salvation and for your righteous word.
124 Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness and teach me your statutes. 125 I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.
126 It is time for Jehovah to work. They have made void your law. 127 Therefore I love your commandments above gold, yes, above fine gold. 128 Therefore I esteem all precepts concerning all things to be right. I hate every false way.
129 Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them. 130 The opening of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple. 131 I opened wide my mouth and panted, because I longed for your commandments.
132 Turn to me and have mercy upon me, as you used to do to those who love your name. 133 Establish my footsteps in your word and do not let any wickedness have dominion over me.
134 Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts.
135 Make your face to shine upon your servant and teach me your statutes. 136 Streams of water run down my eyes, because they do not observe your law.
137 You are righteous, O Jehovah and upright are your judgments. 138 You have commanded your testimonies in righteousness and exceeding faithfulness.
139 My zeal has consumed me, because my adversaries have forgotten your words. 140 Your word is very pure, therefore your servant loves it. 141 I am small and despised. I do not forget your precepts. 142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness and your law is truth. 143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me. Your commandments are my delight.
144 Your testimonies are everlasting righteous. Give me understanding and I will live. 145 I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, O Jehovah. I will keep your statutes. 146 I have called to you. Save me and I will observe your testimonies.
147 I anticipated the dawning of the morning and cried. I hoped in your words. 148 My eyes anticipated the night-watches that I might meditate on your word.
149 Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. Give me life, O Jehovah, according to your ordinances.
150 They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law.
151 You are near, O Jehovah and all your commandments are truth. 152 Of long-ago I have known from your testimonies because you have founded them everlasting.
153 Consider my affliction and deliver me, because I do not forget your law. 154 Plead my cause and redeem me. Give me life according to your word.
155 Salvation is far from the wicked, because they do not seek your statutes.
156 Great are your tender mercies, O Jehovah. Give me life according to your ordinances.
157 Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I have not swerved from your testimonies. 158 I beheld the treacherous and was grieved because they do not observe your word.
159 Consider when I love your precepts. Give me life, O Jehovah, according to your loving kindness.
160 The sum of your word is truth and every one of your righteous ordinances is everlasting.
161 Rulers have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.
162 I rejoice at your word, as he who finds great spoil. 163 I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.
164 Seven times a day I praise you because of your righteous ordinances.
165 Those who love your law have great peace and they have no occasion of stumbling. 166 I have hoped for your salvation, O Jehovah and have done your commandments. 167 My soul has observed your testimonies and I love them exceedingly. 168 I have observed your precepts and your testimonies, because all my ways are before you.
169 Let my cry come near before you, O Jehovah. Give me understanding according to your word. 170 Let my supplication come before you. Deliver me according to your word. 171 Let my lips pour out praise, because you teach me your statutes. 172 Let my tongue sing of your word, because all your commandments are righteousness. 173 Let your hand be ready to help me, because I have chosen your precepts.
174 I have longed for your salvation, O Jehovah and your law is my delight. 175 Let my soul live and it will praise you. And let your ordinances help me. 176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, because I do not forget your commandments.
3 I will set no wicked speech before my eyes. I hate the work of those who turn aside. It will not cleave to me. 4 A perverse heart will depart from me. I will know no evil thing.
5 He who slanders his neighbor secretly, I will destroy him. He who has a high look and a proud heart I will not endure.
6 My eyes will be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will minister to me.
7 He who works deceit will not dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood will not be established before my eyes.
8 Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of wickedness from the city of Jehovah.
102 1 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah and let my cry come to you. 2 Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Incline your ear to me. Answer me speedily in the day when I call.
3 Because my days consume away like smoke and my bones are burned as a firebrand. 4 My heart is struck like grass and withered, because I forget to eat my bread. 5 Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cling to my flesh.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places. 7 I watch and have become like a sparrow that is alone upon the house-top.
8 My enemies reproach me all the day. Those who are mad against me curse by me. 9 Because I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping, 10 because of your indignation and your wrath. Because you have taken me up and cast me away.
11 My days are like a shadow that declines and I am withered like grass.
12 But you, O Jehovah, will abide everlasting and your memorial to all generations. 13 You will arise and have mercy upon Zion, because it is time to have pity upon her, yes, the set time has come. 14 Because your servants take pleasure in her stones and have pity upon her dust.
15 So the nations will fear the name of Jehovah and all the kings of the earth your glory. 16 Because Jehovah has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.
17 He has regarded the prayer of the destitute and has not despised their prayer.
18 This will be written for the generation to come. And a people which will be created will praise Jehovah.
19 Because he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven Jehovah beheld the earth, 20 to hear the sighing of the prisoner, to loose those who are appointed to death, 21 that men may declare the name of Jehovah in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem, 22 when the peoples are gathered together and the kingdoms to serve Jehovah.
23 He weakened my strength in the way. He shortened my days. 24 I said, O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.
25 You laid of old the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of your hands. 26 They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will grow old like a garment. As a raiment you will change them and they will be changed, 27 but you are the same and your years will have no end.
28 The sons of your servants will continue and their seed will be established before you.
103 1 Praise Jehovah, O my soul and all that is within me, praise his holy name.
2 Praise Jehovah, O my soul and do not forget all his benefits, 3 who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases, 4 who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies, 5 who satisfies your desire with good things and your youth is renewed like the eagle.
6 Jehovah executes righteous acts and judgments for all who are oppressed. 7 He made known his ways to Moses, his practices to the sons of Israel. 8 Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness.
9 He will not always contend, nor will he keep it everlasting. 10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
11 Because as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him. 12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
13 Like as a father pities his sons, So Jehovah pities those who fear him. 14 Because he knows our frame. He remembers that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 16 Because the wind passes over it and it has gone and the place of it will know it no more.
17 But the loving kindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who fear him and his righteousness to son's sons, 18 to such as keep his covenant and to those who remember his precepts to do them.
19 Jehovah has established his throne in the heavens and his kingdom rules over all.
20 Praise Jehovah, you* his messengers, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, listening to the voice of his word.
21 Praise Jehovah, all you* his hosts, you* ministers of his, who do his pleasure. 22 Praise Jehovah, all you* his works in all places of his dominion.
Praise Jehovah, O my soul.
104 1 Praise Jehovah, O my soul.
O Jehovah my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty, 2 who covers yourself with light as with a garment, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, 3 who lays the beams of his chambers in the waters, who makes the clouds his chariot, who walks upon the wings of the wind, 4 who makes his messengers spirits, his ministers a flame of fire, 5 who laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be shaken everlasting and forever.
6 You covered it with the deep as with a raiment. The waters stood above the mountains. 7 At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hastened away.
8 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which you had founded for them. 9 You have set a bound that they may not pass over, that they do not turn again to cover the earth.
10 He sends forth springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains. 11 They give drink to every beast of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
12 The birds of the heavens have their habitation by them. They sing among the branches. 13 He waters the mountains from his chambers. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle and herbage for the service of man, that he may bring forth food out of the earth, 15 and wine that gladdens the heart of man and oil to make his face to shine and bread that strengthens man's heart.
16 The trees of Jehovah are full, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted, 17 where the birds make their nests. As for the stork, the fir trees are her house. 18 The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock-baggers.
19 He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows his going down. 20 You make darkness and it is night, during which all the beasts of the forest creep forth.
21 The young lions roar after their prey and seek their food from God. 22 The sun arises; they get away and lie down in their dens.
23 Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until the evening.
24 O Jehovah, how great are your works! You have made them all in wisdom. The earth is full of your riches.
25 Yonder is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable creeping things, both small and great beasts. 26 There go the ships. There is leviathan, whom you have formed to play in it.
27 These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season. 28 You give to them, they gather. You open your hand, they are satisfied with good.
29 You hide your face, they are troubled. You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
30 You send forth your Spirit, they are created and you renew the face of the ground.
31 Let the glory of Jehovah endure everlasting. Let Jehovah rejoice in his works, 32 who looks on the earth and it trembles. He touches the mountains and they smoke.
33 I will sing to Jehovah as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being. 34 Let your meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Jehovah.
35 Let sinners be consumed out of the earth and let the wicked be no more.
Praise Jehovah, O my soul. Praise Jehovah.
105 1 O give thanks to Jehovah, call upon his name. Make known among the peoples his practices. 2 Sing to him, sing praises to him. Talk of all his marvelous works.
3 Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Jehovah rejoice. 4 Seek Jehovah and his strength. Seek his face continually. 5 Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders and the judgments of his mouth, 6 O you* seed of Abraham his servant, you* sons of Jacob, his chosen. 7 He is Jehovah our God. His judgments are in all the earth.
8 He has remembered his covenant everlasting, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, 9 which he made with Abraham and his oath to Isaac, 10 and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, to Israel for an everlasting covenant, 11 saying, To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your* inheritance, 12 when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few and travelers in it.
13 And they went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people. 14 He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes, 15 saying, Touch not my anointed men and do my prophets no harm.
16 And he called for a famine upon the land. He broke the whole staff of bread. 17 He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a servant.
18 They hurt his feet with fetters. He was placed in iron. 19 Until the time that his word happened, the word of Jehovah tried him.
20 The king sent and released him, even the ruler of peoples and let him go free. 21 He made him lord of his house and ruler of all his substance, 22 to bind his rulers at his pleasure and teach his elders wisdom.
23 Israel also came into Egypt and Jacob traveled in the land of Ham.
24 And he increased his people greatly and made them stronger than their adversaries. 25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.
26 He sent Moses his servant and Aaron whom he had chosen. 27 They set among them his signs and wonders in the land of Ham.
28 He sent darkness and made it dark. And they rebelled against his words.
29 He turned their waters into blood and killed their fish. 30 Their land swarmed with frogs in the chambers of their kings.
31 He spoke and there came swarms of flies and lice in all their borders.
32 He gave them hail for rain and flaming fire in their land. 33 He also killed* their vines and their fig trees and broke the trees of their borders.
34 He spoke and the locust came and the grasshopper and that without number, 35 and ate up every herb in their land and ate up the fruit of their ground. 36 He also killed* all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
37 And he brought them forth with silver and gold and there was not a feeble soul among his tribes. 38 Egypt was glad when they departed, because the fear of them had fallen upon them.
39 He spread a cloud for a covering and fire to give light in the night. 40 They asked and he brought quails and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
41 He opened the rock and waters gushed out. They ran in the dry places like a river.
42 Because he remembered his holy word and Abraham his servant. 43 And he brought out his people with joy and his chosen with singing.
44 And he gave them the lands of the nations and they took the labor of the peoples in possession, 45 that they might keep his statutes and observe his laws. Praise Jehovah.
106 1 Praise Jehovah. O give thanks to Jehovah, because he is good, because his loving kindness is everlasting. 2 Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah, or show forth all his praise?
3 Those who keep justice are fortunate and he who does righteousness at all times.
4 Remember me, O Jehovah, with the favor that you bear to your people. O visit me with your salvation, 5 that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
6 We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.
7 Our fathers did not understand your wonders in Egypt. They did not remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
9 He also rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up. So he led them through the depths as through a wilderness. 10 And he saved them from the hand of him who hated them and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
11 And the waters covered their adversaries; there was not one of them left. 12 Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.
13 They soon forgot his works. They did not wait for his counsel, 14 but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness and challenged God in the desert. 15 And he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
16 They also envied Moses in the camp and Aaron the holy ones of Jehovah. 17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the company of Abiram.
18 And a fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked men.
19 They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped a molten image. 20 Thus they changed their glory for the likeness of an ox that eats grass.
21 They forgot God their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt, 22 wondrous works in the land of Ham and fearful things by the Red Sea.
23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy.
24 Yes, they despised the desirable land. They did not believe his word, 25 but murmured in their tents and did not listen to the voice of Jehovah.
26 Therefore he swore to them, that he would overthrow them in the wilderness, 27 and that he would overthrow their seed among the nations and scatter them in the lands.
28 They also joined themselves to Baal of Peor and ate the sacrifices of the dead. 29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their practices and the plague broke in upon them.
30 Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment and so the plague was restrained. 31 And that was reckoned to him for righteousness to generation and generation until everlasting.
32 They also angered him at the waters of Meribah, so that it went ill with Moses because of them, 33 because they were rebellious against his spirit and he spoke ill-advisedly with his lips.
34 They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them, 35 but mingled themselves with the nations and learned their works, 36 and served their idols, which became a snare to them.
37 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons, 38 and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. And the land was polluted with blood.
39 Thus they were defiled with their works and played the prostitute in their practices.
40 Therefore the wrath of Jehovah was kindled against his people and he detested his inheritance. 41 And he gave them into the hand of the nations. And those who hated them, ruled over them. 42 Their enemies also oppressed them and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
43 Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their counsel and were brought low in their iniquity.
44 Nevertheless he regarded their distress when he heard their cry. 45 And he remembered his covenant for them and relented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. 46 He also made them to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.
47 Save us, O Jehovah our God and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name and to triumph in your praise.
48 Praise Jehovah, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, Truly. Praise Jehovah.
107 1 O give thanks to Jehovah. Because he is good, because his loving kindness is everlasting. 2 Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary, 3 and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.
4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city of habitation. 5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
6 Then they cried to Jehovah in their trouble and he delivered them out of their distresses. 7 He also led them by a straight way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
8 O that men would praise Jehovah for his loving kindness and for his wonderful works to the sons of men!
9 Because he satisfies the longing soul and he fills the hungry soul with good, 10 even those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron, 11 because they rebelled against the words of God and scorned the counsel of the Most High.
12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down and there was none to help.
13 Then they cried to Jehovah in their trouble and he saved them out of their distresses. 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke their bonds apart.
15 O that men would praise Jehovah for his loving kindness and for his wonderful works to the sons of men!
16 Because he has broken the gates of brass and cut the bars of iron apart. 17 Fools are afflicted because of their transgression and because of their iniquities. 18 Their soul abhors all manner of food and they draw near to the gates of death.
19 Then they cry to Jehovah in their trouble and he saves them out of their distresses. 20 He sends his word and heals them and delivers them from their destructions.
21 O that men would praise Jehovah for his loving kindness and for his wonderful works to the sons of men! 22 And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare his works with singing.
23 Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters, 24 these men see the works of Jehovah and his wonders in the deep.
25 For he commands and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up the waves of it. 26 They mountain up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble. 27 They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wits' end.
28 Then they cry to Jehovah in their trouble and he brings them out of their distresses. 29 He makes the storm a calm, so that the waves of it are still. 30 Then they are glad because they are quiet, so he brings them to their desired haven.
31 O that men would praise Jehovah for his loving kindness and for his wonderful works to the sons of men! 32 Let them also exalt him in the assembly of the people and praise him in the seat of the elders.
33 He turns rivers into a wilderness and water springs into a thirsty ground, 34 a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
35 He turns a wilderness into a pool of water and a dry land into water springs. 36 And there he makes the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city of habitation, 37 and sow fields and plant vineyards and get fruits of increase.
38 He also graces them, so that they are multiplied greatly and he does not allow their cattle to decrease.
39 Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble and sorrow. 40 He pours contempt upon rulers and makes them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.
41 Yet he sets a needy man on high from affliction and makes him families like a flock. 42 The upright will see it and be glad. And all unrighteousness will stop her mouth.
43 He who is wise will give heed to these things and they will consider the loving kindnesses of Jehovah.
108 1 My heart is fixed, O God, I will sing, yes, I will sing praises, even with my glory. 2 Awake, psaltery and harp. I myself will awaken the dawn.
3 I will give thanks to you, O Jehovah, among the peoples and I will sing praises to you among the nations.
4 Because your loving kindness is great above the heavens and your truth is to the skies.
5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens and your glory above all the earth. 6 That your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand and answer us.
7 God has spoken in his holiness. I will rejoice. I will divide Shechem and measure out the valley of Succoth. 8 Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense of my head. Judah is my scepter.
9 Moab is my wash pot. I will cast my shoe upon Edom. I will shout over Philistia.
10 Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom? 11 Have you not cast us off, O God? And you do not go forth, O God, with our armies. 12 Give us help against the adversary, for vain is the help of man.
13 Through God we will do valiantly, for he it is who will tread down our adversaries.
109 1 Do not hold your peace, O God of my praise, 2 because they have opened against me the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue. 3 They have also encompassed me about with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause.
4 They are my adversaries instead of my love, but I make prayer. 5 And they have rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my love.
6 Set a wicked man over him and let an adversary stand at his right hand. 7 When he is judged, let him come out guilty and let his prayer be turned into sin. 8 Let his days be few and let another take his office.
9 Let his sons be fatherless and his wife a widow. 10 Let his sons be vagabonds and beg and let them seek out of their desolate places. 11 Let a creditor exact all that he has and let strangers make spoil of his labor.
12 Let there be none to prolong kindness to him, nor let there be any to have pity on his fatherless sons. 13 Let his posterity be cut off. Let their name be blotted out in the following generation.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah and do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth, 16 because he did not remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man and the broken in heart, to kill.
17 Yes, he loved cursing and it came to him. And he did not delight in blessing and it was far from him.
18 He also clothed himself with cursing as with his garment and it came into his inward parts like water and like oil into his bones. 19 Let it be to him as the garments with which he covers himself and for the belt with which he is girded continually.
20 This is the reward of my adversaries from Jehovah and of those who speak evil against my soul.
21 But deal with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for your name's sake. Because your loving kindness is good, deliver me, 22 because I am poor and needy and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I have gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust. 24 My knees are weak through fasting and my flesh fails of fatness.
25 I also have become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.
26 Help me, O Jehovah my God. O save me according to your loving kindness, 27 that they may know that this is your hand, that you, Jehovah, have done it.
28 Let them curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be put to shame, but your servant will rejoice.
29 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor and let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
30 I will give great thanks to Jehovah with my mouth. Yes, I will praise him among the multitude. 31 Because he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.
110 1 Jehovah says to my Lord, Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. 2 Jehovah will send forth the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies. 3 Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning you have the dew of your youth.
4 Jehovah has sworn and will not repent. You are a everlasting priest after the order of Melchizedek.
5 The Lord at your right hand will strike through kings in the day of his wrath. 6 He will judge among the nations. He will fill with dead bodies. He will strike through the head in many countries. 7 He will drink of the brook in the way, therefore he will lift up the head.
111 1 Praise Jehovah. I will give thanks to Jehovah with my whole heart, in the council of the upright and in the congregation.
2 The works of Jehovah are great, sought out by all those who have pleasure in it.
3 His work is honor and majesty and his righteousness endures everlasting.
4 He has made his wonderful works to be remembered. Jehovah is gracious and merciful.
5 He has given food to those who fear him. He will ever be mindful of his everlasting covenant.
6 He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the heritage of the nations.
7 The works of his hands are truth and justice. All his precepts are sure. 8 They are established everlasting and forever. They are done in truth and uprightness.
9 He has sent redemption to his people. He has commanded his everlasting covenant. Holy and reverend is his name.
10 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom and all who act accordingly have a good understanding.
His praise endures forever.
112 1 Praise Jehovah. The man is fortunate who fears Jehovah, who delights greatly in his commandments. 2 His seed will be mighty upon earth. The generation of the upright will be blessed.
3 Wealth and riches are in his house and his righteousness endures forever. 4 To the upright there arises light in the darkness. He is gracious and merciful and righteous.
5 It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment, 6 because he will never be moved. The righteous will be in everlasting remembrance.
7 He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is fixed, trusting in Jehovah. 8 His heart is established, he will not be afraid, even until he looks over his adversaries.
9 He has scattered, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
10 A wicked man will see it and be grieved. He will gnash with his teeth and melt away. The desire of wicked men will perish.
113 1 Praise Jehovah. Praise him, O you* servants of Jehovah. Praise the name of Jehovah. 2 Praised is the name of Jehovah from this time forth and everlasting. 3 From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same Jehovah's name is to be praised.
4 Jehovah is high above all nations and his glory above the heavens. 5 Who is like Jehovah our God who has his seat on high, 6 and yet looks upon the low things in heaven and in the earth.
7 He raises up a poor man out of the dust and lifts up a needy man from the dunghill, 8 that he may set him with rulers, even with the rulers of his people. 9 He makes the barren woman to keep house, a joyful mother of sons.
Praise Jehovah.
114 1 When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, 2 Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
3 The sea saw it and fled. The Jordan was driven back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
5 What is it to you, O you the sea, that you flee? You Jordan, that you turn back? 6 You* mountains, that you* skip like rams, you* little hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, 8 who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
115 1 Not to us, O Jehovah, not to us, but to your name give glory. Upon your loving kindness and upon your truth's sake.
2 Why should the nations say, Where is their God now? 3 But our God is in the heavens. He has done whatever he pleased.
4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 5 They have mouths, but they do not speak. They have eyes, but they do not see. 6 They have ears, but they do not hear. They have noses, but they do not smell. 7 They have hands, but they do not handle. They have feet, but they do not walk, nor do they speak through their throat.
8 Those who make them will be like them. Yes, everyone who trusts in them.
9 O Israel, trust in Jehovah. He is their help and their shield. 10 O house of Aaron, trust in Jehovah. He is their help and their shield. 11 You* who fear Jehovah, trust in Jehovah. He is their help and their shield.
12 Jehovah has been mindful of us. He will bless, he will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.
13 He will bless those who fear Jehovah, both small and great. 14 Jehovah increase you* more and more, you* and your* sons.
15 Blessed are you* of Jehovah who made heaven and earth.
16 The heavens are the heavens of Jehovah, but the earth he has given to the sons of men.
17 The dead do not praise Jehovah, nor any who go down into silence, 18 but we will praise Jehovah from this time forth and everlasting.
Praise Jehovah.
116 1 I love Jehovah because he hears my voice and my supplications. 2 Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call as long as I live.
3 The cords of death encompassed me and the pains of Sheol found me. I found trouble and sorrow. 4 Then I called upon the name of Jehovah. O Jehovah, I beseech you, deliver my soul.
5 Gracious is Jehovah and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful. 6 Jehovah preserves the simple. I was brought low and he saved me.
7 Return to your rest, O my soul, because Jehovah has dealt bountifully with you. 8 Because you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from falling.
9 I will walk before Jehovah in the land of the living.
10 I believed, because I have spoken, but I was greatly afflicted. 11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
12 What shall I render to Jehovah for all his benefits toward me? 13 I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of Jehovah. 14 I will pay my vows to Jehovah, yes, in the presence of all his people.
15 Precious in the sight of Jehovah is the death of his holy ones. 16 O Jehovah, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have loosed my bonds.
17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the name of Jehovah. 18 I will pay my vows to Jehovah, yes, in the presence of all his people, 19 in the courts of Jehovah's house, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem.
Praise Jehovah.
117 1 O praise Jehovah, all you* Gentiles, laud him, all you* peoples.
2 Because his loving kindness is great toward us and the truth of Jehovah is everlasting.
Praise Jehovah.
118 1 O give thanks to Jehovah, because he is good, because his loving kindness is everlasting.
2 Let Israel now say that his loving kindness is everlasting.
3 Let the house of Aaron now say that his loving kindness is everlasting.
4 Let those now who fear Jehovah say that his loving kindness is everlasting.
5 I called upon Jehovah out of my distress. Jehovah answered me upon a large place. 6 Jehovah is on my side, I will not fear. What can man do to me? 7 Jehovah is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look upon those who hate me.
8 It is better to take refuge in Jehovah than to put confidence in man. 9 It is better to take refuge in Jehovah than to put confidence in rulers.
10 All nations encompassed me around. I will cut them off in the name of Jehovah. 11 They encompassed me around, yes, they encompassed me around. I will cut them off in the name of Jehovah. 12 They encompassed me around like bees. They are quenched as the fire of thorns. I will cut them off in the name of Jehovah.
13 You thrust greatly at me that I might fall, but Jehovah helped me.
14 Jehovah is my strength and song and he has become my salvation. 15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous.
The right hand of Jehovah does valiantly. 16 The right hand of Jehovah is exalted. The right hand of Jehovah does valiantly.
17 I will not die, but live and declare the works of Jehovah. 18 Jehovah has disciplined me greatly, but he has not given me over to death.
19 Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Jehovah. 20 This is the gate of Jehovah. The righteous will enter into it. 21 I will give thanks to you, because you have answered me and have become my salvation.
22 The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner. 23 This is from Jehovah. It is marvelous in our eyes.
24 This is the day which Jehovah has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.
25 Save now, we beseech you, O Jehovah. O Jehovah, we beseech you, send now prosperity.
26 He who comes in the name of Jehovah is blessed. We have blessed you* out of the house of Jehovah.
27 Jehovah is God and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar. 28 You are my God and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you.
29 O give thanks to Jehovah, because he is good, because his loving kindness is everlasting.
119 1 Those who are perfect in the way, who walk in the law of Jehovah are fortunate. 2 Those who keep his testimonies, that seek him with the whole heart are fortunate. 3 Yes, they do no unrighteousness. They walk in his ways. 4 You have commanded your precepts, that we should observe them diligently.
5 O that my ways were established to observe your statutes! 6 Then I will not be put to shame when I have respect for all your commandments. 7 I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart when I learn your righteous judgments. 8 I will observe your statutes. O forsake me not utterly.
9 With what will a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to your word. 10 I have sought you with my whole heart. O do not let me wander from your commandments. 11 I have laid your word up in my heart that I might not sin against you.
12 Praise you, O Jehovah. Teach me your statutes. 13 I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth with my lips. 14 I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies as much as in all riches. 15 I will meditate on your precepts and have respect for your ways. 16 I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.
17 Deal bountifully with your servant that I may live, so I will observe your word. 18 Open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. 19 I am a traveler in the earth. Do not hide your commandments from me. 20 My soul breaks for the longing that it has to your ordinances at all times. 21 You have rebuked the proud, who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.
22 Take away from me reproach and contempt, because I have kept your testimonies. 23 Rulers also sat and talked against me, but your servant meditated on your statutes.
24 Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors. 25 My soul clings to the dust. Give me life according to your word. 26 I declared my ways and you answered me. Teach me your statutes. 27 Make me to understand the way of your precepts, so I will meditate on your wondrous works.
28 My soul melts for heaviness. Strengthen me according to your word. 29 Remove from me the way of falsehood and grant me your law graciously.
30 I have chosen the way of faithfulness. I have set your ordinances. 31 I cling to your testimonies. O Jehovah, put me not to shame. 32 I will run the way of your commandments because you will enlarge my heart.
33 Teach me, O Jehovah, the way of your statutes and I will keep it to the end. 34 Give me understanding and I will keep your law, yes, I will observe it with my whole heart. 35 Make me to go in the path of your commandments, because I do delight in it. 36 Incline my heart to your testimonies and not to covetousness.
37 Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity and give me life in your ways. 38 Confirm to your servant your word, which is for the fear of you. 39 Turn away my reproach of which I am afraid, because your ordinances are good. 40 Behold, I have longed after your precepts. Give me life in your righteousness.
41 Let your loving kindnesses also come to me, O Jehovah, even your salvation, according to your word. 42 So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, because I trust in your word.
43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, because I have hoped in your ordinances. 44 So shall I observe your law continually everlasting and forever. 45 And I will walk at liberty, because I have sought your precepts.
46 I also will speak of your testimonies before kings and will not be put to shame. 47 And I will delight myself in your commandments, which I have loved. 48 I will also lift up my hands to your commandments, which I have loved and I will meditate on your statutes.
49 Remember the word to your servant, because you have made me to hope. 50 This is my comfort in my affliction, because your word has revived me.
51 The proud scoff at me greatly, yet I have not swerved from your law. 52 I have remembered your everlasting ordinances, O Jehovah and have comforted myself. 53 Hot indignation has taken hold upon me because of the wicked who forsake your law.
54 Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. 55 I have remembered your name, O Jehovah, in the night and have observed your law. 56 I have had this because I have kept your precepts.
57 Jehovah is my portion; I have said that I would observe your words. 58 I entreated your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word. 59 I thought on my ways and turned my feet to your testimonies. 60 I made haste and delayed not, to observe your commandments.
61 The cords of the wicked have wrapped me around, but I have not forgotten your law.
62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you because of your righteous ordinances. 63 I am a companion of all those who fear you and of those who observe your precepts.
64 The earth, O Jehovah, is full of your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes. 65 You have dealt well with your servant, O Jehovah, according to your word.
66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge, because I have believed in your commandments.
67 Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I observe your word. 68 You are good and do good. Teach me your statutes.
69 The proud have forged a lie against me. I will keep your precepts with my whole heart. 70 Their heart is like fat like grease, but I delight in your law.
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes. 72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
73 Your hands have made me and fashioned me. Give me understanding that I may learn your commandments. 74 Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have hoped in your word. 75 I know, O Jehovah, that your judgments are righteous and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
76 I beseech you, let your loving kindness be for my comfort according to your word to your servant. 77 Let your tender mercies come to me that I may live, because your law is my delight.
78 Let the proud be put to shame, because they have overthrown me wrongfully.
I will meditate on your precepts. 79 Let those who fear you turn to me and they will know your testimonies. 80 Let my heart be perfect in your statutes that I am not put to shame. 81 My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word. 82 My eyes fail for your word, while I say, When will you comfort me? 83 Because I have become like a wine-skin in the smoke. Yet I do not forget your statutes.
84 How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me? 85 The proud have dug pits for me, who are not according to your law. 86 All your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me. 87 They had almost consumed me upon earth, but I did not forsake your precepts. 88 Revive me according to your loving kindness, so I will observe the testimony of your mouth.
89 Everlasting, O Jehovah, your word is settled in heaven. 90 Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth and it abides. 91 They abide this day according to your ordinances, because all things are your servants.
92 Unless your law had been my delight, I should then have perished in my affliction. 93 I will never forget your precepts, because you have given me life with them. 94 I am yours. Save me, because I have sought your precepts. 95 The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your testimonies.
96 I have seen an end of all perfection. Your commandment is exceedingly broad. 97 O how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.
98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, because they are everlasting with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, because your testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the aged because I have kept your precepts.
101 I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word. 102 I have not turned aside from your ordinances, because you have taught me.
103 How sweet are your words to my taste, than honey to my mouth! 104 Through your precepts I get understanding. Therefore I hate every false way.
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and light to my path. 106 I have sworn and have confirmed it, that I will observe your righteous ordinances.
107 I am afflicted very much. Revive me, O Jehovah, according to your word. 108 I beseech you, accept the free-will offerings of my mouth, O Jehovah and teach me your ordinances. 109 My soul is continually in my hand, yet I do not forget your law. 110 The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I have not gone-astray from your precepts.
111 I have taken your testimonies as a heritage everlasting, because they are the rejoicing of my heart.
112 I have inclined my heart to perform your everlasting statutes, even to the end.
113 I hate those who are of a double mind, but I love your law. 114 You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word. 115 Depart from me, you* evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
116 Uphold me according to your word, that I may live and do not let me be ashamed of my hope. 117 Hold me up and I will be safe and will have respect for your statutes continually.
118 You have tossed-aside all those who go astray from your statutes, because their deceit is falsehood. 119 You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies.
120 My flesh trembles for fear of you and I am afraid of your judgments. 121 I have done justice and righteousness. Do not leave me to my oppressors. 122 Be a surety for your servant for good. Do not let the proud oppress me. 123 My eyes fail for your salvation and for your righteous word.
124 Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness and teach me your statutes. 125 I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.
126 It is time for Jehovah to work. They have made void your law. 127 Therefore I love your commandments above gold, yes, above fine gold. 128 Therefore I esteem all precepts concerning all things to be right. I hate every false way.
129 Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them. 130 The opening of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple. 131 I opened wide my mouth and panted, because I longed for your commandments.
132 Turn to me and have mercy upon me, as you used to do to those who love your name. 133 Establish my footsteps in your word and do not let any wickedness have dominion over me.
134 Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts.
135 Make your face to shine upon your servant and teach me your statutes. 136 Streams of water run down my eyes, because they do not observe your law.
137 You are righteous, O Jehovah and upright are your judgments. 138 You have commanded your testimonies in righteousness and exceeding faithfulness.
139 My zeal has consumed me, because my adversaries have forgotten your words. 140 Your word is very pure, therefore your servant loves it. 141 I am small and despised. I do not forget your precepts. 142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness and your law is truth. 143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me. Your commandments are my delight.
144 Your testimonies are everlasting righteous. Give me understanding and I will live. 145 I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, O Jehovah. I will keep your statutes. 146 I have called to you. Save me and I will observe your testimonies.
147 I anticipated the dawning of the morning and cried. I hoped in your words. 148 My eyes anticipated the night-watches that I might meditate on your word.
149 Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. Give me life, O Jehovah, according to your ordinances.
150 They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law.
151 You are near, O Jehovah and all your commandments are truth. 152 Of long-ago I have known from your testimonies because you have founded them everlasting.
153 Consider my affliction and deliver me, because I do not forget your law. 154 Plead my cause and redeem me. Give me life according to your word.
155 Salvation is far from the wicked, because they do not seek your statutes.
156 Great are your tender mercies, O Jehovah. Give me life according to your ordinances.
157 Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I have not swerved from your testimonies. 158 I beheld the treacherous and was grieved because they do not observe your word.
159 Consider when I love your precepts. Give me life, O Jehovah, according to your loving kindness.
160 The sum of your word is truth and every one of your righteous ordinances is everlasting.
161 Rulers have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.
162 I rejoice at your word, as he who finds great spoil. 163 I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.
164 Seven times a day I praise you because of your righteous ordinances.
165 Those who love your law have great peace and they have no occasion of stumbling. 166 I have hoped for your salvation, O Jehovah and have done your commandments. 167 My soul has observed your testimonies and I love them exceedingly. 168 I have observed your precepts and your testimonies, because all my ways are before you.
169 Let my cry come near before you, O Jehovah. Give me understanding according to your word. 170 Let my supplication come before you. Deliver me according to your word. 171 Let my lips pour out praise, because you teach me your statutes. 172 Let my tongue sing of your word, because all your commandments are righteousness. 173 Let your hand be ready to help me, because I have chosen your precepts.
174 I have longed for your salvation, O Jehovah and your law is my delight. 175 Let my soul live and it will praise you. And let your ordinances help me. 176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, because I do not forget your commandments.