Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts. I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word.
I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me. How sweet are your
words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through your precepts I get
understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
Your
word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. I have sworn an oath and
confirmed it, to keep your righteous rules.
I am severely afflicted; give me life, O Lord, according to your word! Accept
my freewill offerings of praise, O Lord, and teach me your rules. I hold my
life in my hand continually, but I do not forget your law.
The wicked have laid a snare for me, but I do not stray from your precepts.
Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart. I
incline my heart to perform your statutes
forever, to the end.
I hate the double-minded, but I love your law. You are my hiding place and my
shield; I hope in your word.
Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to
shame in my hope! Hold me up, that I may be safe and have regard for your
statutes continually!
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