Lord, you have done good to your servant :
in accordance with your word.
O teach me right judgement and knowledge :
for I trust in your commandments.
Before I was afflicted I went astray :
but now I keep your word.
You are good, and you do good :
O teach me your statutes.
The proud have smeared me with lies :
but I will keep your precepts with my whole heart.
Their hearts are gross like fat :
but my delight is in your law.
It is good for me that I was afflicted :
so I might learn your statutes.
The law of your mouth is dearer to me :
than a wealth of gold and silver.
Your hands have made me and fashioned me :
O give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice :
for my hope is in your word.
I know, Lord, that your judgements are right :
and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
Let your merciful kindness be my comfort :
according to your promise to your servant.
O let your mercy come to me that I may live :
for your law is my delight.
Let the proud be shamed who steal my rights through their lies :
but I will meditate on your precepts.
Let those who fear you turn to me :
and they shall know your commands.
O let my heart be sound in your statutes :
that I may never be put to shame.
My soul languishes for your salvation :
but my hope is in your word;
My eyes fail with watching for your promise :
saying O when will you comfort me?
I am parched as a wineskin in the smoke :
yet I do not forget your statutes.
How many are the days of your servant :
and when will you judge my persecutors?
The proud have dug pitfalls for me :
in defiance of your law.
All your commandments are true :
but they persecute me with lies
They have almost made an end of me on the earth :
but I have not forsaken your precepts.
In your merciful goodness give me life :
that I may keep the commands of your mouth.
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