User:NBeale/Psalm119

A version of Psalm 119 I have long felt the need for some version of Psalm 119 that follows the alphabetical plan of the original. My Hebrew is almost non-existent but as an exercise when I have been ill I have had the following shot at it: greatly assisted by the RSV, the JB, and Celebrating Common Prayer which has the ECUSA version of the psalms. Improvements warmly solicited:


 * 1) 	Ah, blessed are they whose way is blameless: who walk in the light of the law of the Lord.
 * Ah, blessed are they who observe his decrees: they seek him with a whole heart
 * 1) 	Always walking in his ways: they never do any wrong.
 * 2) 	Almighty, you have made your precepts known: that we might faithfully keep them.
 * 3) 	Ah that my ways were made so direct: that I might keep your statutes.
 * 4) 	Avoiding being put to shame: when I regard all your commandments
 * 5) 	An unfeigned thankful heart will I bring to you: when I have learned your righteous judgements
 * 6) 	Always will I keep your statutes: O do not utterly forsake me!
 * 7) 	By what means can a youth become cleansed in his ways? By ruling his life in accord with your word.
 * 8)       Being single of heart I have sought you: do not let me stray from your commandments
 * 9) 	Bejewelled are your premises in my heart: that I may not sin against you
 * 10) 	Blessed are you O Lord: teach me your statutes
 * 11) 	By my lips have I repeated all the judgements of your mouth
 * 12) 	Beyond all manner of riches: I delight in your decrees
 * 13) 	Bethinking on your commandments: I will give attention to your ways
 * 14) 	Bringing great delight are your statutes: I will not forget your word.
 * 15) 	Choose to deal bountifully, with your servant: that I may live and keep your word
 * 16) 	Concentrate my opened eyes: on the wisdom of your law
 * 17) 	Conceal not your commandments from me: since I am an exile here on earth
 * 18) 	Consumed is my soul at all times: with a longing for your judgements
 * 19) 	Cursed are those who stray from your command: you have rebuked the insolent.
 * 20) 	Contempt and insults turn away from me: since I respect your law.
 * 21) 	Conspiracies of rulers shall not dissuade me: from meditating on your statutes,
 * 22) 	Continually delighting in your statutes: your decrees are my counsellors.
 * 23) 	Down in the dust I am laid low: preserve my life according to your word.
 * 24) 	Direct me in your decrees: since I described my ways and you answered me.
 * 25) 	Do give me understanding of your precepts: then will I meditate on your marvels.
 * 26) 	Deprived of sleep by grief: strengthen me as you have promised.
 * 27) 	Deceitful ways – O keep me from them: be gracious to me according to your law.
 * 28) 	Decidedly have I chosen the way of truth: I have set my heart on your laws.
 * 29) 	Disappoint me not O Lord: I hold fast to your statutes;
 * 30) 	Delighted, I run the way of your commandments: since you have set my heart at liberty.
 * 31) 	Expound to me, Lord, the true way of your statutes: that I may keep them unto the end
 * 32) 	Endow me with understanding and I will keep your law: and observe it with a whole heart
 * 33) 	Educate me in the path of your commandments: since they are my delight
 * 34) 	Endue my heart with a love of your statutes: and not of selfish gain
 * 35) 	Expunge all vain things from my eyes: preserve my life according to your word.
 * 36) 	Everywhere will you be feared: as you fulfil your promises to your servant.
 * 37) 	Enable me to escape the disgrace that I dread: for your law is good.
 * 38) 	Earnestly I long for your precepts: give me life by your righteousness.
 * 39) 	Fortify me with your faithful love, Lord: and your salvation according to your promise
 * 40) 	For then will I find an answer to their insults: for I trust in your word
 * 41) 	Forbear from removing the word of truth from my mouth: for I have put my trust in your law.
 * 42) 	Forever will I obey your law: for ever and ever.
 * 43) 	Freely will I walk about: for I have sought out your precepts.
 * 44) 	Fearing no disgrace or shame: I shall proclaim your statutes before kings
 * 45) 	For I delight in your commandments: which I have always loved.
 * 46) 	Faithfully I lift my hands to your commandments which I love: and I mediate on your decrees
 * 47) 	Graciously remember your word to your servant: because you have given me blessing and hope
 * 48) 	Giving me comfort in my suffering: your promise preserves my life
 * 49) 	Greivously the arrogant mock me: but I do not turn from your law
 * 50) 	Great and eternal are your laws: O Lord I find comfort in them
 * 51) 	Gripped with indignation because of the wicked: who have forsaken your law
 * 52) 	Going about in exile: your decrees are the theme of my song.
 * 53) 	Getting up at night: I remember your name and dwell on your law.
 * 54) 	Growing in my daily practice: that I respect your precepts.
 * 55) 	Here you only are my portion O Lord: and here I have promised to keep all your words.
 * 56) 	Heartfelt entreaties I raise to you: be mindful of me according to your promise.
 * 57) 	Having reflected on my behaviour: I turn my steps to your decrees;
 * 58) 	Hastening and without delay: I will obey your commandments.
 * 59) 	However hemmed in by the nooses of the wicked: I do not forget your law
 * 60) 	Hauling myself from my bed at midnight: to thank you for your righteous judgements;
 * 61) 	Holding in friendship all who fear you: and all who follow your precepts.
 * 62) 	How full is the earth of your love O lord: instruct me in your decrees.
 * 63) 	I entreat you O Lord to do good to your servant: according to your word
 * 64) 	Instruct me in your knowledge and good judgement: for I believe in your commandments
 * 65) 	In the times before I was afflicted I went astray: but now I obey your word.
 * 66) 	Immensely good and kind: O teach me your statutes!
 * 67) 	I keep your precepts with all my heart: though the arrogant have smeared me with lies.
 * 68) 	I delight in your law: though their hearts are callous and un-feeling.
 * 69) 	It was good for me to be afflicted: so that I might keep your decrees.
 * 70) 	Infinitely more precious is your law to me: than all the gold and silver in the world.
 * 71) 	Knowing your hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding that I may live and keep your law.
 * 72) 	Kindle rejoicing in those who fear you when they see me: for I have put my hope in your word.
 * 73) 	Know I firmly, O Lord, that your decrees are righteous: and in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
 * 74) 	Kindness and love from you be my comfort: as you have promised to your servant.
 * 75) 	Kindly and tenderly treat me, and I shall live: since your law is my delight
 * 76) 	Knock down the arrogant with shame for defaming me: while I meditate on your precepts.
 * 77) 	Knit those who fear you closely to me: all those who know your decrees.
 * 78) 	Keep my heart blameless in your statutes: that I may not be put to shame.
 * 79) 	Longing for your salvation fills my soul: I have put all my hope in your word.
 * 80) 	Looking for your salvation consumes my eyes: "when will you comfort me?"
 * 81) 	Leathery like a flask in the smoke: I have not forgotten your statutes
 * 82) 	Let me know how much longer I must wait: when will you give judgement against those who persecute me?
 * 83) 	Laying traps, the proud have dug pits for me: in defiance of your law.
 * 84) 	Lying men persecute me: help me, for your commands are trustworthy.
 * 85) 	Little prevented me from being wiped out on earth: but I have not forgotten your precepts.
 * 86) 	Lovingly intervene, revive me: and I will keep your decrees.
 * 87) 	My Lord, your word is everlasting: it stands firm in the heavens
 * 88) 	Magnificent is your faithfulness, lasting from age to age: you established the earth and it endures
 * 89) 	Making your laws endure to this day: for all things serve you.
 * 90) 	Most surely would I have perished in my affliction: if your law had not been my delight.
 * 91) 	My mind will never forget your precepts: for by them you have saved my life
 * 92) 	Make me safe, for I am yours: I have sought out your precepts
 * 93) 	Mystify the wicked who hope to destroy me: for I am scrupulous about your decrees.
 * 94) 	Mere human perfection has limits: but your commandment has no bounds.
 * 95) 	Newly each day will I muse on your law: O how I love it.
 * 96) 	Now your commands make me wiser than my enemies: for they are ever with me.
 * 97) 	None of my teachers is wiser than me: because I meditate on your decrees
 * 98) 	None of my elders is more perfect than I am: since I respect your precepts
 * 99) 	Never placing my feet in an evil path: so that I might obey your word.
 * 100) 	Not departing from your laws: for you yourself have taught me
 * 101) 	Nothing is sweeter than your words to my taste: sweeter than honey in my mouth
 * 102) 	New understanding comes to me through your commands: therefore I hate every lying way.
 * 103) 	O your word is a lantern to my feet: and a light upon my path
 * 104) 	Oaths have I taken and surely confirmed: that I will follow your just laws.
 * 105) 	O Lord, preserve my life according to your word: though my suffering is acute
 * 106) 	O Lord, accept the homage that I offer: and teach me your laws.
 * 107) 	O my life is always in my hands: I have never yet forgotten your laws.
 * 108) 	Others have set wicked traps for me: but I have not strayed from your precepts.
 * 109) 	Over everything, your statutes are my heritage: they are the joy of my heart.
 * 110) 	Obeying your statutes is the devotion of my life: compensation enough for ever.
 * 111) 	Perfidious men of divided allegiance I hate: but I love your law!
 * 112) 	Protector, refuge and shield: I put my hope in your word
 * 113) 	People of wickedness, away from me! I will keep the commandments of God.
 * 114) 	Preserve me according to your promise that I may live: let me not be disappointed in my hope.
 * 115) 	Permanently shall I regard you decrees: uphold me and I shall be delivered.
 * 116) 	Perverse and deluded people you spurn: who deceitfully stray from your statutes.
 * 117) 	Pushing off the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love your decrees.
 * 118) 	Palpitating, my flesh trembles before you: I stand in awe of your commandments
 * 119) 	Righteously, justly have I acted: do not abandon me to the oppressor!
 * 120) 	Restorer of your servant’s well-being: do not let the arrogant oppress me!
 * 121) 	Righteousness is your promise for the time to come: my eyes fail, looking for your salvation.
 * 122) 	Recompense your servant according to your love: and teach me your statutes.
 * 123) 	Rewards your servant with discernment: that I may understand your statutes.
 * 124) 	Rouse yourself to act, O Lord: your law is being broken.
 * 125) 	Regarding your commands more highly than gold: more than pure gold,
 * 126) 	Respecting all your precepts as right: I hate every lying path.
 * 127) 	So wonderful are your awesome decrees: my soul yearns to obey them
 * 128) 	Simple folk understand: when your word goes forth it gives light.
 * 129) 	Such longing for your commandments: I open my mouth and pant
 * 130) 	Show pity on me and turn to me: as you always do to those who love you.
 * 131) 	Steady and direct my steps as you have promised: let no sin rule over me.
 * 132) 	Save me from my oppressors: I will obey all your precepts.
 * 133) 	Succour your servant with healing: teach me your statutes
 * 134) 	Streams of tears flow from my smarting eyes: because others disregard your law
 * 135) 	Truly righteous are you, O Lord: and all your commandments are righteous and just.
 * 136) 	The statutes you have laid down are righteous: they are fully trustworthy
 * 137) 	The zeal for your house has consumed me: for my oppressors forget your word.
 * 138) 	Tried and tested are your testimonies: and your servant holds them dear.
 * 139) 	Though I am lowly and despised: I do not forget your precepts
 * 140) 	Through eternity your righteousness remains: your laws hold true for ever.
 * 141) 	Trouble and distress have come upon me: but your commandments are my delight
 * 142) 	These statutes of yours are for ever right: give me understanding of them and I shall live.
 * 143) 	Unfeigned is my call – O Lord answer me: that I may act upon your statutes.
 * 144) 	Upon you I call, O save me: I will undertake your commands
 * 145) 	Up before dawn, I call for your help: I put my hope in your word.
 * 146) 	Unsleeping at night: I mediate upon your promise
 * 147) 	Uphold my life with your rulings: in your great love hear my voice O Lord.
 * 148) 	Ungodly persecutors and closing in upon me: how unaware they are of your law.
 * 149) 	Unfailingly, Lord, you are utterly near at hand: and all your commandments are true.
 * 150) 	Upheld and established are your decrees for ever: long ago have I understood this from your statutes.
 * 151) 	Visit me in my suffering and rescue me: for I do not forget your immaculate law.
 * 152) 	Vindicate me and defend me: give me life according to your promise.
 * 153) 	Vile evildoers you will not deliver: if they do not seek out your statutes
 * 154) 	Vivify me with your judgements O Lord: for vast is your compassion.
 * 155) 	Very many foes oppress me: but I have never swerved from your statutes.
 * 156) 	Viewing these renegades disgusts me: for they do not obey your word.
 * 157) 	View, O Lord, my love of your precepts: in your never-ending love give me life.
 * 158) 	Verily all your words are true: all your righteous laws are eternal.
 * 159) 	Wicked rulers persecute me without cause: but my heart trembles at your word.
 * 160) 	Winning the vast treasure of your promise: I rejoice in love and wonder.
 * 161) 	Wickedness and falsehood I hate and abhor: but your law do I love.
 * 162) 	Willingly I praise you seven times a day: for your righteous wisdom and law.
 * 163) 	Wonderful peace have they who love your law: they shall pass wide from any stumbling block.
 * 164) 	Waiting for your salvation o Lord, I follow your commandments
 * 165) 	Wholly do I love your decrees: and my soul observes them.
 * 166) 	Watch how I keep your paths: with my whole heart I follow your precepts and decrees.
 * 167) 	Yahweh, may my cry come before you: give me understanding according to your word.
 * 168) 	Your presence – may my supplications reach you: deliver me according to your promise.
 * 169) 	You teach me your statutes: may my lips proclaim your praise.
 * 170) 	Your commandments are all righteous: may my tongue recite your praise.
 * 171) 	Your hand – O may it be ready to help me: since I have chosen your precepts.
 * 172) 	Yahweh my saviour, I long for you: your law is my delight.
 * 173) 	Year after year may my soul live and praise you: and may your laws sustain me.
 * 174) 	Yet zealously seek your servant, wandering astray like a lost sheep: for I have not forgotten your commandments.