Psalms 119:1-32

¶ Blessed are those who walk in the perfect way, who walk in the law of the LORD. Blessed are those that keep his testimonies and that seek him with their whole heart. For those who do no iniquity walk in his ways. ¶ Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. O that my ways were ordered to keep thy statutes! Then I shall not be ashamed, when I have insight 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 do not utterly forsake me. ¶ With what shall a young man cleanse his way? when he shall keep thy word. ¶ With my whole heart I have sought thee; O let me not err from thy commandments. ¶ Thy spoken word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee. ¶ Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes. ¶ With my lips I have declared all the judgments of thy mouth. I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies as above all riches. I will meditate in thy precepts and consider thy ways. I will delight myself in thy statutes; I will not forget thy words. ¶ Deal bountifully with thy slave that I may live and keep thy word. ¶ Open my eyes, and I shall behold the wonders of thy law. ¶ I am a stranger in the earth; hide not thy commandments from me. ¶ My soul is broken from desiring thy judgments at all times. ¶ Thou hast reprehended the proud; cursed are those who err from thy commandments. ¶ Remove from me reproach and contempt, for I have kept thy testimonies. ¶ Princes also sat and spoke against me as thy slave spoke according to thy statutes. ¶ For thy testimonies are my delight and my counsellors. ¶ My soul cleaves unto the dust; quicken me according to thy word. ¶ I have declared my ways, and thou didst hear me; teach me thy statutes. Make me to understand the way of thy precepts; so I shall meditate of thy wondrous works. ¶ My soul melts for heaviness; strengthen me according to thy word. Remove from me the way of lying, and from thy law grant me mercy. ¶ I have chosen the way of truth; I have laid thy judgments 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.