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but their delight is in the law of the Lord,
    and on his law they meditate day and night.(A)

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This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to act in accordance with all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall be successful.(A)

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92 If your law had not been my delight,
    I would have perished in my misery.

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11 I treasure your word in my heart,
    so that I may not sin against you.(A)

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97 Oh, how I love your law!
    It is my meditation all day long.(A)
98 Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies,
    for it is always with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers,
    for your decrees are my meditation.

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22 For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self,(A)

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16 Your words were found, and I ate them,
    and your words became to me a joy
    and the delight of my heart,
for I am called by your name,
    O Lord, God of hosts.(A)

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15 I will meditate on your precepts
    and fix my eyes on your ways.(A)
16 I will delight in your statutes;
    I will not forget your word.(B)

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35 Lead me in the path of your commandments,
    for I delight in it.

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Psalm 112

Blessings of the Righteous

Praise the Lord!
    Happy are those who fear the Lord,
    who greatly delight in his commandments.(A)

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34 May my meditation be pleasing to him,
    for I rejoice in the Lord.

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I delight to do your will, O my God;
    your law is within my heart.”(A)

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Psalm 119

The Glories of God’s Law

Happy are those whose way is blameless,
    who walk in the law of the Lord.(A)

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For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,(A)

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47 I find my delight in your commandments
    because I love them.
48 I revere your commandments, which I love,
    and I will meditate on your statutes.(A)

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12 I have not departed from the commandment of his lips;
    I have treasured his words in my bosom.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 23.12 Gk: Heb words more than my daily bread

72 The law of your mouth is better to me
    than thousands of gold and silver pieces.(A)

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15 Put these things into practice, devote yourself to them, so that all may see your progress.

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37 then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped there with fasting and prayer night and day.(A)

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Thanksgiving and Encouragement

I am grateful to God—whom I worship with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did—when I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.(A)

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You remember our labor and toil, brothers and sisters; we worked night and day so that we might not burden any of you while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.(A)

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And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them?

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Psalm 88

Prayer for Help in Despondency

A Song. A Psalm of the Korahites. To the leader: according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.

O Lord, God of my salvation,
    at night, when I cry out before you,(A)

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