Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart.

You have put your orders into our hearts, so that we might keep them with care.

Then I would not be put to shame, as long as I have respect for all your teaching.

I will keep your rules: O give me not up completely.

I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.

Praise be to you, O Lord: give me knowledge of your rules.

I have taken as much delight in the way of your unchanging word, as in all wealth.

I will have delight in your rules I will not let your word go out of my mind.

Let my eyes be open to see the wonders of your law.

My soul is broken with desire for your decisions at all times.

Take away from me shame and bitter words for I have kept your unchanging word in my heart.

Your unchanging word is my delight, and the guide of my footsteps.

I put the record of my ways before you, and you gave me an answer: O give me knowledge of your rules.

My soul is wasted with sorrow give me strength again in keeping with your word

I have taken the way of faith: I have kept your decisions before me.

I will go quickly in the way of your teaching, because you have given me a free heart.

Give me wisdom, so that I may keep your law going after it with all my heart.

Let my heart be turned to your unchanging word, and not to evil desire.

Give effect to your word to your servant, in whose heart is the fear of you.

See how great is my desire for your orders: give me life in your righteousness.

So that I may have an answer for the man who would put me to shame for I have faith in your word.

So that I may keep your law for ever and ever

So that I may give knowledge of your unchanging word before kings, and not be put to shame.

And so that my hands may be stretched out to you and I will give thought to your rules.

This is my comfort in my trouble that your sayings have given me life.

I have kept the memory of your decisions from times past, O Lord and they have been my comfort.

Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.

This has been true of me, that I have kept your orders in my heart.

I have given my mind to do your pleasure with all my heart have mercy on me, as you have said.

I was quick to do your orders, and let no time be wasted.

In the middle of the night I will get up to give you praise, because of all your right decisions.

The earth, O Lord, is full of your mercy: give me knowledge of your rules.

Give me knowledge and good sense for I have put my faith in your teachings.

You are good, and your works are good give me knowledge of your rules.

Their hearts are shut up with fat but my delight is in your law.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.

Your worshippers will see me and be glad because my hope has been in your word.

Let your mercy now be my comfort, as you have said to your servant.

Let the men of pride be shamed because they have falsely given decision against me but I will give thought to your orders.

Let all my heart be given to your orders, so that I may not be put to shame.

My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort?

How short is the life of your servant! when will you give your decision against those who are attacking me?

All your teachings are certain they go after me with evil design give me your help.

Give me life in your mercy so that I may be ruled by the unchanging word of your mouth.

Your faith is unchanging from generation to generation: you have put the earth in its place, and it is not moved.

If your law had not been my delight, my troubles would have put an end to me.

I am yours, O be my saviour for my desire has been for your rules.

I have seen that nothing on earth is complete but your teaching is very wide.

Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever.

I have more wisdom than the old, because I have kept your orders.

My heart has not been turned away from your decisions for you have been my teacher.

Through your orders I get wisdom for this reason I am a hater of every false way.

I have made an oath and kept it, to be guided by your upright decisions.

Take, O Lord, the free offerings of my mouth, and give me knowledge of your decisions.

Sinners have put a net to take me but I was true to your orders.

My heart is ever ready to keep your rules, even to the end.

God has not put away the people of his selection. Or have you no knowledge of what is said about Elijah in the holy Writings? how he says words to God against Israel,

But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal.

But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.

As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.

Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.

Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full?

If in any way those who are of my flesh may be moved to envy, so that some of them may get salvation by me.

And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported.

Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear

See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy if not, you will be cut off as they were.

For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be united again with the olive-tree which was theirs?