Salmos 119

¶ ALEPH. Blessed [are] the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

Blessed [are] they that keep his testimonies, [and that] seek him with the whole heart.

They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.

¶ Thou hast commanded [us] to keep thy precepts diligently.

O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

¶ I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.

I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.

¶ BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed [thereto] according to thy word.

¶ With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

¶ Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

¶ Blessed [art] thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.

¶ With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.

I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as [much as] in all riches.

I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

¶ GIMEL. Deal bountifully with thy servant, [that] I may live, and keep thy word.

¶ Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

¶ I [am] a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

¶ My soul breaketh for the longing [that it hath] unto thy judgments at all times.

¶ Thou hast rebuked the proud [that are] cursed, which do err from thy commandments.

¶ Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.

¶ Princes also did sit [and] speak against me: [but] thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

¶ Thy testimonies also [are] my delight [and] my counsellors.

¶ DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.

¶ I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.

Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.

¶ My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.

Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.

¶ I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid [before me].

I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.

I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

¶ HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it [unto] the end.

Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with [my] whole heart.

¶ Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

¶ Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; [and] quicken thou me in thy way.

¶ Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who [is devoted] to thy fear.

¶ Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments [are] good.

¶ Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

¶ VAU. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, [even] thy salvation, according to thy word.

So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.

¶ And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.

So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.

¶ And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.

I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.

And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

¶ ZAIN. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.

¶ This [is] my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.

¶ The proud have had me greatly in derision: [yet] have I not declined from thy law.

¶ I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.

¶ Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

¶ Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

¶ I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.

This I had, because I kept thy precepts.

¶ CHETH. [Thou art] my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.

¶ I intreated thy favour with [my] whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.

¶ I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.

¶ The bands of the wicked have robbed me: [but] I have not forgotten thy law.

¶ At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.

¶ I [am] a companion of all [them] that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.

¶ The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.

¶ TETH. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.

¶ Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

¶ Thou [art] good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.

¶ The proud have forged a lie against me: [but] I will keep thy precepts with [my] whole heart.

Their heart is as fat as grease; [but] I delight in thy law.

¶ It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

¶ The law of thy mouth [is] better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.

¶ JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

¶ They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.

¶ I know, O LORD, that thy judgments [are] right, and [that] thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

¶ Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.

Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law [is] my delight.

¶ Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: [but] I will meditate in thy precepts.

Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.

¶ Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.

¶ CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: [but] I hope in thy word.

Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

¶ For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes.

¶ How many [are] the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?

¶ The proud have digged pits for me, which [are] not after thy law.

All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.

They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.

¶ Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

¶ LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.

Thy faithfulness [is] unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.