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.
118:40. Behold I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy
justice.
VAU.
118:41. Let thy mercy also come upon me, O Lord: thy salvation
according to thy word.
118:42. So shall I answer them that reproach me in any thing; that I
have trusted in thy words.
118:43. And take not thou the word of truth utterly out of my mouth:
for in thy words, I have hoped exceedingly.
118:44. So shall I always keep thy law, for ever and ever.
118:45. And I walked at large: because I have sought after thy
commandments.
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