Psalms 118

¹Alleluia. Aleph. Doctrine. Blessed are the immaculate in the way: which walk in the law of our Lord.

²Blessed are they that search his testimonies: that seek after him with all their heart.

³For they that work iniquity, have not walked in his ways.

⁴Thou hast very much commanded thy commandments to be kept.

⁵Would God my ways might be directed, to keep thy justifications.

⁶Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall look throughly in all thy commandments.

⁷I will confess to thee in direction of heart: in that I have learned the judgments of thy justice.

⁸I will keep thy justifications: forsake me not wholly.

⁹Beth. House. Wherein doth a young man correct his way? In keeping thy words.

¹⁰With my whole heart I have sought after thee: repel me not from thy commandments.

¹¹In my heart I have hid thy words: that I may not sin to thee.

¹²Blessed art thou, o Lord: teach me thy justifications.

¹³In my lips I have pronounced all the judgments of thy mouth.

¹⁴I am delighted in the way of thy testimonies, as in all riches.

¹⁵I will be exercised in thy commandments: and I will consider thy ways.

¹⁶I will meditate in thy justifications: I will not forget thy words.

¹⁷Gimel. Fullness. Render to thy servant, quicken me: and I shall keep thy words.

¹⁸Reveal mine eyes: and I shall consider the marvelous things of thy law.

¹⁹I am a sojourner in the land, hide not thy commandments from me.

²⁰My soul hath coveted to desire thy justifications, at all time.

²¹Thou hast rebuked the proud: cursed are they that decline from thy commandments.

²²Take from me reproach, and contempt: because I have sought after thy testimonies.

²³For Princes sat, and they spake against me: but thy servant was exercised in thy justifications.

²⁴For both thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my counsel.

²⁵Daleth. Of Tables. My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken me according to thy word.

²⁶I have uttered my ways, and thou hast heard me: teach me thy justifications.

²⁷Instruct me the way of thy justifications: and I shall be exercised in thy marvelous works.

²⁸My soul hath slumbered for tediousness: confirm me in thy words.

²⁹Remove from me the way of iniquity: and according to thy law, have mercy on me.

³⁰I have chosen the way of truth: I have not forgotten thy judgments.

³¹I have cleaved to thy testimonies, o Lord: do not confound me.

³²I ran the way of thy commandments: when thou didst dilate my heart.

³³He. This thing. Set me a law, o Lord, the way of thy justifications: and I will seek after it always.

³⁴Give me understanding, and I will search thy law: and I will keep it with my whole heart.

³⁵Conduct me into the path of thy commandments: because I would it.

³⁶Incline my heart into thy testimonies: and not into avarice.

³⁷Turn away mine eyes that they see not vanity: in thy way quicken me.

³⁸Establish thy word to thy servant, in thy fear.

³⁹Take away my reproach, which I have feared: because thy judgments are pleasant.

⁴⁰Behold I have coveted thy commandments: in thine equity quicken me.

⁴¹Vau. And. And let thy mercy come upon me, o Lord: thy salvation according to thy word.

⁴²And I shall answer a word to them that upbraid me: because I have hoped in thy words.

⁴³And take not away out of my mouth the word of truth utterly: because I have much hoped in thy judgments.

⁴⁴And I will keep thy law always: for ever, and for ever and ever.

⁴⁵And I walked in largeness: because I have sought after thy commandments.

⁴⁶And I spake of thy testimonies in the sight of kings: and was not confounded.

⁴⁷And I meditated in thy commandments, which I loved.

⁴⁸And I have lifted up my hands to thy commandments, which I loved: and I was exercised in thy justifications.

⁴⁹Zain. This. Be mindful of thy word to thy servant, wherein thou hast given me hope.

⁵⁰This hath comforted me in my humiliation: because thy word hath quickened me.

⁵¹The proud did unjustly exceedingly: but I declined not from thy law.

⁵²I have been mindful of thy judgments from everlasting, o Lord: and was comforted.

⁵³Fainting possessed me, because of sinners forsaking thy Law.

⁵⁴Thy justifications were song by me, in the place of my peregrination.

⁵⁵I have been mindful in the night of thy name, o Lord: and have kept thy law.

⁵⁶This was done to me: because I sought after thy justifications.

⁵⁷Heth. Life. My portion, o Lord, I said to keep thy law.

⁵⁸I besought thy face, with all my heart: have mercy on me according to thy word.

⁵⁹I thought upon my ways: and converted my feet unto thy testimonies.

⁶⁰I am prepared, and am not troubled: to keep thy commandments.

⁶¹The cords of sinners have wrapped me round about: and I have not forgotten thy law.

⁶²At mid-night I rose to confess to thee, for the judgments of thy justification.

⁶³I am partaker of all that fear thee: and that keep thy commandments.

⁶⁴The earth, o Lord, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy justifications.

⁶⁵Teth. Good. Thou hast done bounty with thy servant, o Lord: according to thy word.

⁶⁶Teach me goodness, and discipline, and knowledge: because I have believed thy commandments.

⁶⁷Before I was humbled I offended: therefore have I kept thy word.

⁶⁸Thou art good: and in thy goodness teach me thy justifications.

⁶⁹The iniquity of the proud is multiplied upon me: but I in all my heart will search thy commandments.

⁷⁰Their heart is curded together as milk: but I have meditated thy law.

⁷¹It is good for me that thou hast humbled me: that I may learn thy justifications.

⁷²The law of thy mouth is good unto me, above thousands of gold and silver.

⁷³Iod. Beginning. Thy hands have made me, and formed me: give me understanding, and I will learn thy commandments.

⁷⁴They that fear thee shall see me, & shall rejoice: because I have much hoped in thy words.

⁷⁵I know, o Lord, that thy judgments are equity: and in thy truth thou hast humbled me.

⁷⁶Let thy mercy be done to comfort me, according to thy word unto thy servant.

⁷⁷Let thy commiserations come to me, and I shall live: because thy law is my meditation.

⁷⁸Let the proud be confounded, because they have done unjustly toward me: but I will be exercised in thy commandments.

⁷⁹Let them be converted to me that fear thee: and that know thy testimonies.

⁸⁰Let my heart be made immaculate in thy justifications, that I be not confounded.

⁸¹Caph. Hand, or Palm of the hand. My soul hath fainted for thy salvation: and I have much hoped in thy word.

⁸²Mine eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort me?

⁸³Because I am made as a bottle in the hoar frost: I have not forgotten thy justifications.

⁸⁴How many are the days of thy servant: when wilt thou do judgment on them that persecute me?

⁸⁵The unjust have told me fables: but not as thy law.

⁸⁶All thy commandments are truth: they have unjustly persecuted me, help me.

⁸⁷They have well near made end of me in the earth: but I have not forsaken thy commandments.

⁸⁸According to thy mercy quicken me: and I shall keep the testimonies of thy mouth.

⁸⁹Lamed. Discipline. For ever Lord thy word is permanent in heaven.

⁹⁰Thy truth in generation and generation: thou hast founded the earth, and it is permanent.

⁹¹By thy ordinance the day continueth: because all things serve thee.

⁹²But that thy law is my meditation: I had then perhaps perished in my humiliation.

⁹³I will not forget thy justifications for ever: because in them thou hast quickened me.

⁹⁴I am thine, save me: because I have sought out thy justifications.

⁹⁵Sinners have expected me to destroy me: I understood thy testimonies.

⁹⁶Of all consummation I have seen the end: thy commandment is exceeding large.

⁹⁷Mem. Of them. How have I loved thy law, o Lord! All the day it is my meditation.

⁹⁸Above mine enemies thou hast made me wise by thy commandment: because it is to me for ever.

⁹⁹Above all that taught me have I understood: because thy testimonies are my meditation.

¹⁰⁰Above ancients have I understood: because I have sought thy commandments.

¹⁰¹I have stayed my feet from all evil way: that I may keep thy words.

¹⁰²I have not declined from thy judgments: because thou hast set me a law.

¹⁰³How sweet are thy words to my jaws. More than honey to my mouth!

¹⁰⁴By thy commandments I have understood: therefore have I hated all the way of iniquity.

¹⁰⁵Nun. Everlasting. Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths.

¹⁰⁶I sware, and have determined to keep the judgments of thy justice.

¹⁰⁷I am humbled exceedingly, o Lord: quicken me according to thy word.

¹⁰⁸The voluntaries of my mouth make acceptable, o Lord: and teach me thy judgments.

¹⁰⁹My soul is in my hands always: and I have not forgotten thy law.

¹¹⁰Sinners laid a snare for me: and I have not erred from thy commandments.

¹¹¹For inheritance I have purchased thy testimonies for ever: because they are the joy of my heart.

¹¹²I have inclined my heart to do thy justifications for ever, for reward.

¹¹³Samech. Help. I have hated the unjust: and I have loved thy law.

¹¹⁴Thou art my helper, and protector: and upon thy word I have much hoped.

¹¹⁵Depart from me ye malignant: and I will search the commandments of my God.

¹¹⁶Receive me according to thy word, and I shall live: and confound me not of mine expectation.

¹¹⁷Help me, and I shall be saved: and I will meditate in thy justifications always.

¹¹⁸Thou hast despised all that revolt from thy judgments: because their cogitation is unjust.

¹¹⁹All the sinners of the earth I have reputed prevaricators: therefore have I loved thy testimonies.

¹²⁰Pierce my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy judgments.

¹²¹Ain. A fountain, or an eye. I have done judgment and justice: deliver me not to them that calumniate me.

¹²²Receive thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me.

¹²³Mine eyes have failed after thy salvation: and for the word of thy justice.

¹²⁴Do with thy servant according to thy mercy: and teach me thy justifications.

¹²⁵I am thy servant: give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.

¹²⁶It is time to do, o Lord: they have dissipated thy law.

¹²⁷Therefore have I loved thy commandments, above gold and topazius.

¹²⁸Therefore was I directed to all thy commandments: all wicked way I have hated.

¹²⁹Phe. Mouth. Thy testimonies are marvelous: therefore hath my soul searched them.

¹³⁰The declaration of thy words doth illuminate: and giveth understanding to little ones.

¹³¹I opened my mouth, and drew breath: because I desired thy commandments.

¹³²Look upon me, and have mercy on me, according to the judgment of them that love thy name.

¹³³Direct my steps according to thy word: and let not any injustice have domination over me.

¹³⁴Redeem me from the calumnies of men: that I may keep thy commandments.

¹³⁵Illuminate thy face upon thy servant: and teach me thy justifications.

¹³⁶Mine eyes have gushed forth issues of waters: because they have not kept thy law.

¹³⁷Sade. Justice. Thou art just, o Lord: and thy judgment is right.

¹³⁸Thou hast commanded justice thy testimonies: and thy verity exceedingly.

¹³⁹My zeal hath made me to pine away: because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.

¹⁴⁰Thy word is fired exceedingly: and thy servant hath loved it.

¹⁴¹I am a youngman, and contemned: I have not forgotten thy justifications.

¹⁴²Thy justice is justice for ever: and thy law is verity.

¹⁴³Tribulation and distress have found me: thy commandments are my meditation.

¹⁴⁴Thy testimonies are equity for ever give me understanding, and I shall live.

¹⁴⁵Coph. Vocation. I have cried in my whole heart, hear me, o Lord: I will seek after thy justifications.

¹⁴⁶I have cried to thee, save me: that I may keep thy commandments.

¹⁴⁷I have prevented in maturity, and have cried: because I hoped much in thy words.

¹⁴⁸Mine eyes have prevented early unto thee: that I might meditate thy words.

¹⁴⁹Hear my voice according to thy mercy, o Lord: and according to thy judgment quicken me.

¹⁵⁰They that persecute me have approached to iniquity: but from thy law they are made far off.

¹⁵¹Thou art nigh, o Lord: and all thy ways are truth.

¹⁵²From the beginning I knew of thy testimonies: that thou hast founded them for ever.

¹⁵³Res. Head. See my humiliation, and deliver me: because I have not forgotten thy law.

¹⁵⁴Judge my judgment, & redeem me: for thy word quicken thou me.

¹⁵⁵Salvation is far from sinners: because they have not sought after thy justifications.

¹⁵⁶Thy mercies are many, o Lord: according to thy judgment quicken me.

¹⁵⁷There are many that persecute me, and afflict me: I have not declined from thy testimonies.

¹⁵⁸Isaw the prevaricators, and I pined away: because they kept not thy words.

¹⁵⁹See that I have loved thy commandments, o Lord: in thy mercy quicken me.

¹⁶⁰The beginning of thy words is truth: all the judgments of thy justice are for ever.

¹⁶¹Sin. Tooth. Princes have persecuted me without cause: and my heart hath been afraid of thy words.

¹⁶²I will rejoice at thy words: as he that findeth many spoils.

¹⁶³I have heard iniquity, and abhorred it: but thy law I have loved.

¹⁶⁴Seven times in the day I have said praise to thee, for the judgments of thy justice.

¹⁶⁵There is much peace to them that love thy law: & there is no scandal to them.

¹⁶⁶I expected thy salvation, o Lord: and have loved thy commandments.

¹⁶⁷My soul hath kept thy testimonies: & hath loved them exceedingly.

¹⁶⁸I have kept thy commandments, and thy testimonies: because all my ways are in thy sight.

¹⁶⁹Tau. Sign. Let my petition approach in thy sight, o Lord: according to thy word give me understanding.

¹⁷⁰Let my request enter in thy sight: according to thy word deliver me.

¹⁷¹My lips shall utter an hymn, when thou shalt teach me thy justifications.

¹⁷²My tongue shall pronounce thy word: because all thy commandments are equity.

¹⁷³Let thy hand be to save me: because I have chosen thy commandments.

¹⁷⁴I have coveted thy salvation, o Lord: and thy law is my meditation.

¹⁷⁵My soul shall live, and shall praise thee: and thy judgments shall help me.

¹⁷⁶I have strayed as a sheep that is lost: seek thy servant, because I have not forgotten thy commandments.