God

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.