⁸ I desire to do your will, my God;
    your law is within my heart.’

² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
    When can I go and meet with God?

⁴ Then I will go to the altar of God,
    to God, my joy and my delight.
I will praise you with the lyre,
    O God, my God.

⁹ All the nations you have made
    will come and worship before you, Lord;
    they will bring glory to your name.

¹⁹ Open for me the gates of the righteous;
    I will enter and give thanks to the Lord.
²⁰ This is the gate of the Lord
    through which the righteous may enter.