Psalm 119:49-64

Complete Jewish Bible

⁴⁹ Remember your promise to your servant,
through which you have given me hope.
⁵⁰ In my distress my comfort is this:
that your promise gives me life.
⁵¹ Though the arrogant scorn me completely,
I have not turned away from your Torah.
⁵² Adonai, I keep in mind your age-old rulings;
in them I take comfort.
⁵³ Fury seizes me when I think of the wicked,
because they abandon your Torah.
⁵⁴ Your laws have become my songs
wherever I make my home.
⁵⁵ I remember your name, Adonai, at night;
and I observe your Torah.
⁵⁶ This [comfort] has come to me,
because I observe your precepts.

⁵⁷ Adonai, I say that my task
is to observe your words.
⁵⁸ I beg your favor with my whole heart;
show pity to me, in keeping with your promise.
⁵⁹ I thought about my ways
and turned my feet toward your instruction.
⁶⁰ I hurry, I don’t delay,
to observe your mitzvot.
⁶¹ Even when the cords of the wicked close around me,
I don’t forget your Torah.
⁶² At midnight I rise to give you thanks
because of your righteous rulings.
⁶³ I am a friend of all who fear you,
of those who observe your precepts.
⁶⁴ The earth, Adonai, is full of your grace;
teach me your laws.