Psalm 119

Tree of Life Version

¹ Blessed are those whose way is blameless,
who walk in the Torah of Adonai.
² Happy are those who keep His testimonies,
who seek Him with a whole heart,
³ who also do no injustice, but walk in His ways.
⁴ You have commanded that Your precepts
be kept diligently.
⁵ Oh that my ways were steadfast
to observe Your decrees!
⁶ Then I would not be ashamed,
when I consider all Your mitzvot.
⁷ I will praise You with an upright heart
as I learn Your righteous judgments.
⁸ I will observe Your statutes.
Never abandon me utterly!

⁹ How can a young man keep his way pure?
By guarding it according to Your word.
¹⁰ With my whole heart have I sought You
—let me not stray from Your mitzvot.
¹¹ I have treasured Your word in my heart,
so I might not sin against You.
¹² Blessed are You, Adonai.
Teach me Your statutes.
¹³ With my lips I rehearse
all the rulings of Your mouth.
¹⁴ I rejoice in the way of Your testimonies
above all wealth.
¹⁵ I will meditate on Your precepts,
and regard Your ways.
¹⁶ I will delight in Your decrees.
I will never forget Your word.

¹⁷ Do good to Your servant
that I may live and keep Your word.
¹⁸ Open my eyes, so I may behold
wonders from Your Torah.
¹⁹ I am a temporary dweller on earth—
do not hide Your mitzvot from me.
²⁰ My soul is crushed with longing
for Your judgments at all times.
²¹ You rebuke the proud, who are cursed,
who wander from Your mitzvot.
²² Take scorn and contempt away from me,
for I have kept Your testimonies.
²³ Though princes sit and talk against me,
Your servant meditates on Your decrees.
²⁴ For Your testimonies are my delight—
they are also my counselors.

²⁵ My soul clings to the dust.
Revive me according to Your word!
²⁶ I told of my ways and You answered me.
Teach me Your statutes.
²⁷ Help me discern the way of Your precepts,
so I may meditate on Your wonders.
²⁸ My soul weeps with grief.
Make me stand firm with Your word.
²⁹ Turn me away from the deceitful way,
and be gracious to me with Your Torah.
³⁰ I have chosen the way of faithfulness.
I have set my heart on Your judgments.
³¹ I cling to Your testimonies.
Adonai, do not put me to shame!
³² I run the course of Your mitzvot,
for You open wide my heart.

³³ Teach me the way of Your decrees, Adonai,
and I will follow them to the end.
³⁴ Give me understanding,
that I may keep Your Torah
and observe it with all my heart.
³⁵ Help me walk in the path of Your mitzvot—
for I delight in it.
³⁶ Turn my heart to Your testimonies
and not to dishonest gain.
³⁷ Turn my eyes away from gazing at vanity
but revive me in Your ways.
³⁸ Fulfill Your word to Your servant,
which leads to reverence for You.
³⁹ Make the disgrace I dread pass away,
for Your judgments are good.
⁴⁰ Behold, I long for Your precepts.
Revive me by Your righteousness.

⁴¹ May Your lovingkindnesses come to me, Adonai—
Your salvation according to Your word—
⁴² so I may answer the one taunting me,
for I trust in Your word.
⁴³ Never snatch out of my mouth a word of truth,
for I hope in Your judgments.
⁴⁴ So I may always keep Your Torah,
forever and ever,
⁴⁵ and walk about in freedom.
For I have sought Your precepts.
⁴⁶ I will speak of Your testimonies
before kings, and never be ashamed.
⁴⁷ I delight in Your mitzvot,
    which I love.
⁴⁸ I reach out my hands for Your mitzvot,
    which I love,
and meditate on Your decrees.

⁴⁹ Remember the word to Your servant,
on which You have made me hope.
⁵⁰ My comfort in my affliction is this:
Your word has kept me alive.
⁵¹ The arrogant have viciously ridiculed me,
yet I did not turn away from Your Torah.
⁵² I remember Your judgments from of old,
Adonai, and comfort myself.
⁵³ Burning indignation grips me,
because of the wicked who forsake Your Torah.
⁵⁴ Your decrees have become my songs
in the house where I dwell.
⁵⁵ In the night I remember Your Name, Adonai,
and keep watching over Your Torah.
⁵⁶ This is my own:
that I keep Your precepts.

⁵⁷ Adonai is my portion.
I promised to guard Your words.
⁵⁸ I have entreated Your favor with all my heart.
Be gracious to me according to Your word.
⁵⁹ I have considered my ways
and turned my feet back to Your testimonies.
⁶⁰ I hasten and do not delay
to obey Your mitzvot.
⁶¹ The ropes of the wicked are coiled around me,
but I did not forget Your Torah.
⁶² At midnight I rise to praise You,
because of Your righteous rulings.
⁶³ I am a companion of all who fear You,
of those who observe Your precepts.
⁶⁴ The earth is full of Your lovingkindness.
Adonai—teach me Your decrees.

⁶⁵ You do good to Your servant,
Adonai, according to Your word.
⁶⁶ Teach me good sense and knowledge,
for I trusted in Your mitzvot.
⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted I went astray,
but now I keep Your word.
⁶⁸ You are good and keep doing good—
teach me Your decrees.
⁶⁹ Though the proud smeared a lie on me,
with all my heart I keep Your precepts.
⁷⁰ Their minds are insensible,
but Your Torah is my delight.
⁷¹ It is good for me that I was afflicted,
so that I may learn Your decrees.
⁷² The Torah from Your mouth is better to me
than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

⁷³ Your hands have made me and formed me.
Give me understanding that I may learn Your mitzvot.
⁷⁴ Those in awe of You see me and rejoice,
because I put my hope in Your word.
⁷⁵ I know, Adonai, Your judgments are just.
In faithfulness You have afflicted me.
⁷⁶ May Your lovingkindness comfort me,
according to Your promise to Your servant.
⁷⁷ Let Your tender mercies reach me,
Let me live, for Your Torah is my delight.
⁷⁸ May the proud be put to shame
for wronging me with a lie,
but I will meditate on Your precepts.
⁷⁹ Let those in awe of You return to me—
those who know Your testimonies.
⁸⁰ My heart will have integrity in following Your decrees,
so that I would not be ashamed.

⁸¹ My soul faints with longing for Your salvation,
but I still hope in Your word.
⁸² My eyes are worn out longing for Your promise,
    saying, “When will You comfort me?”
⁸³ Though I became like a wineskin dried in smoke,
I do not forget Your decrees.
⁸⁴ How many are the days of Your servant?
When will You execute judgment on my persecutors?
⁸⁵ The proud have dug pits for me—
that is not in accord with Your Torah!
⁸⁶ All Your mitzvot are faithful.
They persecute me with a lie—help me!
⁸⁷ They almost finished me off on earth.
But I—I will not forsake Your precepts.
⁸⁸ Revive me with Your lovingkindness,
so I may keep Your mouth’s testimony.

⁸⁹ Forever, Adonai,
Your word stands firm in the heavens.
⁹⁰ Your faithfulness endures from generation to generation.
You established the earth, and it stands.
⁹¹ Your judgments stand today,
for all things are Your servants.
⁹² If Your Torah had not been my delight,
I would have perished in my affliction.
⁹³ I will never forget Your precepts.
For with them You have kept me alive.
⁹⁴ I am Yours, save me!
For I have sought out Your precepts.
⁹⁵ The wicked wait for me to destroy me.
But I will study Your testimonies.
⁹⁶ I have seen a limit to all perfection,
yet Your commandment is boundless.

⁹⁷ O how I love Your Torah!
It is my meditation all day.
⁹⁸ Your mitzvot make me wiser than my enemies
—for they are mine forever.
⁹⁹ I have more insight than all my teachers,
for Your testimonies are my meditation.
¹⁰⁰ I have gained more understanding than all my elders,
for I have kept Your precepts.
¹⁰¹ I kept my feet from every evil way,
in order to follow Your word.
¹⁰² I do not turn away from Your rulings,
for You Yourself have taught me.
¹⁰³ How sweet is Your word to my taste—
yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
¹⁰⁴ From Your precepts I get discernment,
therefore I hate every false way.

¹⁰⁵ Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light to my path.^[a]
106 I have sworn and confirmed
to observe Your righteous rulings.
¹⁰⁷ I am severely afflicted.
Keep me alive, Adonai, according to Your word.
¹⁰⁸ Please accept the freewill offerings of my mouth, Adonai,
and teach me Your rulings.
¹⁰⁹ My soul is continually in danger,
yet I have not forgotten Your Torah.
¹¹⁰ The wicked have set a snare for me,
yet I did not stray from Your precepts.
¹¹¹ Your testimonies I have as a heritage
forever, for they are my heart’s joy.
¹¹² I turned my heart to do Your decrees,
forever, to the very end.

¹¹³ I hate double-minded ones,
but Your Torah I love.
¹¹⁴ You are my hiding place and my shield
—in Your word I hope.
¹¹⁵ Away from me, evildoers,
so I may keep the mitzvot of my God!
¹¹⁶ Sustain me according to Your word, so I may live,
and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
¹¹⁷ Support me and I will be saved,
and study Your decrees continually.
¹¹⁸ You despise all who wander from Your decrees,
for their deceitfulness is in vain.
¹¹⁹ All the wicked of the earth You remove like dross.
Therefore I love Your testimonies.
¹²⁰ My flesh shudders for fear of You,
and I am in awe of Your judgments.

¹²¹ I did what is just and right.
Do not leave me to my oppressors.
¹²² Guarantee Your servant’s well-being.
Do not let arrogant ones oppress me.
¹²³ My eyes fail, longing for Your salvation
and for Your righteous word.
¹²⁴ Deal with Your servant as befits Your lovingkindness,
and teach me Your statutes.
¹²⁵ I am Your servant, give me discernment,
so I may understand Your testimonies.
¹²⁶ It is time for Adonai to act—
they have violated Your Torah!
¹²⁷ Therefore I love Your mitzvot
more than gold, more than pure gold.
¹²⁸ Therefore I esteem all Your precepts as right in every way
—every false way I hate.

¹²⁹ Your testimonies are wonderful.
Therefore my soul obeys them.
¹³⁰ The unfolding of Your words gives light,
giving understanding to the simple.
¹³¹ I opened my mouth wide and panted,
for I longed for Your mitzvot.
¹³² Turn to me and be gracious to me,
as is fitting to those who love Your Name.
¹³³ Direct my footsteps in Your word,
and let no iniquity get mastery over me.
¹³⁴ Redeem me from human oppression,
and I will keep Your precepts.
¹³⁵ Make Your face shine on Your servant,
and teach me Your decrees.
¹³⁶ Streams of water run down from my eyes,
because they do not observe Your Torah.

¹³⁷ Righteous are You, Adonai,
and Your judgments are upright.
¹³⁸ You have commanded righteousness,
Your testimonies, and great faithfulness.
¹³⁹ My zeal has consumed me,
because my foes forgot Your words.
¹⁴⁰ Your word is thoroughly refined,
and Your servant loves it.
¹⁴¹ I am insignificant and despised,
yet I have not forgotten Your precepts.
¹⁴² Your justice is righteousness forever,
and Your Torah is truth.
¹⁴³ Trouble and anguish have overtaken me,
yet Your mitzvot are my delight.
¹⁴⁴ Your testimonies are righteous forever
—make me understand, so I may live.

¹⁴⁵ I cried out with all my heart,
“Answer me, Adonai!
I will keep Your decrees.”
¹⁴⁶ I cried out to You, “Save me,
and I will keep Your testimonies.”
¹⁴⁷ I am up before dawn, crying for help—
I put my hope in Your word.
¹⁴⁸ My eyes are up before every night watch,
as I meditate on Your word.
¹⁴⁹ Hear my voice with Your lovingkindness.
Revive me, Adonai, with Your judgments.
¹⁵⁰ Pursuers of wicked schemes draw near—
they are far from Your Torah.
¹⁵¹ You are near, Adonai,
and all Your mitzvot are truth.
¹⁵² Long ago I learned from Your testimonies
that You founded them firmly forever.

¹⁵³ See my affliction and rescue me,
for I do not forget Your Torah.
¹⁵⁴ Defend my cause and redeem me.
Restore my life through Your word.
¹⁵⁵ Salvation is far from the wicked,
for they do not seek after Your decrees.
¹⁵⁶ Great are Your mercies, Adonai.
Restore my life with Your judgments.
¹⁵⁷ Many are my persecutors and my foes.
Yet I do not turn from Your testimonies.
¹⁵⁸ I see the treacherous and loathe them,
because they do not keep Your word.
¹⁵⁹ See how I loved Your precepts.
Restore my life, Adonai, with Your lovingkindness.
¹⁶⁰ Truth is the essence of Your word,
and all Your righteous rulings are eternal.

¹⁶¹ Princes persecute me for no reason,
but my heart is in awe of Your words.
¹⁶² I rejoice in Your word,
as one who finds great spoil.
¹⁶³ I hate and abhor falsehood,
but Your Torah I love.
¹⁶⁴ Seven times a day I praise You,
because of Your righteous judgments.
¹⁶⁵ Great peace have they who love Your Torah,
and nothing causes them to stumble.
¹⁶⁶ I hope for Your salvation, Adonai,
and do Your mitzvot.
¹⁶⁷ My soul has observed Your testimonies
and I love them exceedingly.
¹⁶⁸ I observe Your precepts and Your laws,
for all my ways are before You.

¹⁶⁹ Let my cry come to You, Adonai.
Grant me understanding by Your word.
¹⁷⁰ Let my supplication come before You.
Deliver me, according to Your promise.
¹⁷¹ My lips utter praise,
for You teach me Your statutes.
¹⁷² My tongue sings of Your word,
for all Your mitzvot are righteous.
¹⁷³ Let Your hand be ready to help me,
for I have chosen Your precepts.
¹⁷⁴ I long for Your deliverance, Adonai,
and Your Torah is my delight.
¹⁷⁵ Let my soul live and praise You,
and may Your rulings help me.
¹⁷⁶ I have strayed like a lost sheep—seek Your servant.
For I did not forget Your mitzvot.