118:5. O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications. 118:6. Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall look into all thy commandments. 118:7. I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned the judgments of thy justice. 118:8. I will keep thy justifications: O! do not thou utterly forsake me. BETH. 118:9. By what doth a young man correct his way? by observing thy words. 118:10. With my whole heart have I sought after thee: let me not stray from thy commandments. 118:11. Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against thee. 118:12. Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy justifications. 118:13. With my lips I have pronounced all the judgments of thy mouth. 118:14. I have been delighted in the way of thy testimonies, as in all riches. 118:15. I will meditate on thy commandments: and I will consider thy ways. 118:16. I will think of thy justifications: I will not forget thy words. GIMEL. 118:17. Give bountifully to thy servant, enliven me: and I shall keep thy words. 118:18. Open thou my eyes: and I will consider the wondrous things of thy law. 118:19. I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. 118:20. My soul hath coveted to long for thy justifications, at all times. 118:21. Thou hast rebuked the proud: they are cursed who decline from thy commandments. 118:22. Remove from me reproach and contempt: because I have sought after thy testimonies. 118:23. For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications. 118:24. For thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my counsel. DALETH. 118:25. My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according to thy word. 118:26. I have declared my ways, and thou hast heard me: teach me thy justifications. 118:27. Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: and I shall be exercised in thy wondrous works. 118:28. My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: strengthen thou me in thy words. 118:29. Remove from me the way of iniquity: and out of thy law have mercy on me. 118:30. I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments I have not forgotten. 118:31. I have stuck to thy testimonies, O Lord: put me not to shame. 118:32. I have run the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge my heart. HE. 118:33. Set before me for a law the way of thy justifications, O Lord: and I will always seek after it. 118:34. Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; and I will keep it with my whole heart. 118:35. Lead me into the path of thy commandments; for this same I have desired. 118:36. Incline my heart into thy testimonies and not to covetousness. 118:37. Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me in thy way. 118:38. Establish thy word to thy servant, in thy fear. 118:39. Turn away my reproach, which I have apprehended: for thy judgments are delightful.