Psalms 119:77–81

²²¶ It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

²³They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

¹⁷⁴I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my delight.

²But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

⁴¹Let thy mercies come also unto me, O Lord, even thy salvation, according to thy word.

²⁴Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellers.

⁴⁷And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

¹⁸O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.

¹⁰For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

¹¹And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

¹²For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

¹HAVE mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

²Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

³For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

²⁰For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

²⁵But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

²³Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

⁵¹The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

³Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.

¹⁰Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the Lord had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the Lord’s anointed.

¹¹Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.

¹²The Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

¹⁷And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.

¹⁸And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?

³²And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

²But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

³They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

²¹Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.

⁸⁵The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.

⁸⁶All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.

²⁶Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

⁷For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

⁴They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

³O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

⁴If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)

⁵Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

⁷⁴They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.

⁷Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.

⁶³I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.

⁷So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.

¹⁶¶ This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

²⁸And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

¹⁴And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord.

¹²For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

⁶Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

²³¶ Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

²Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

¹⁷But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

²And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart.

²⁰¶ And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the Lord his God.

²¹And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

⁹And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.

²O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

³Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.

²¹Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

²My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

⁴⁰Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

¹¹⁴Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.

²⁶My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

⁷⁷Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.

¹⁵I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

¹⁶So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

⁸I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

⁴²So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.

⁷⁴They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.

¹AS the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

²My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

²⁰My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.