Psalm 119:65-72

Contemporary English Version

⁶⁵ I am your servant, Lord,
and you have kept your promise
    to treat me with kindness.
⁶⁶ Give me wisdom and good sense.
    I trust your commands.
⁶⁷ Once you corrected me
for not obeying you,
    but now I do obey.
⁶⁸ You are kindhearted,
and you do good things,
    so teach me your laws.
⁶⁹ My reputation is being ruined
    by conceited liars,
but with all my heart
    I follow your teachings.
⁷⁰ Those liars have no sense,
but I find happiness
    in your Law.
⁷¹ When you corrected me,
    it did me good
because it taught me
    to study your laws.
⁷² I would rather obey you
than to have a thousand pieces
    of silver and gold.