ud: they are cursed who decline from
thy commandments.

118:22. Remove from me reproach and contempt: because I have sought
after thy testimonies.

118:23. For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was
employed in thy justifications.

118:24. For thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my
counsel.

DALETH.

118:25. My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according
to thy word.

118:26. I have declared my ways, and thou hast heard me: teach me thy
justifications.

118:27. Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: and I shall
be exercised in thy wondrous works.

118:28. My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: strengthen thou me in
thy words.

118:29. Remove from me the way of iniquity: and out of thy law have
mercy on me.

118:30. I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments I have not
forgotten.

118:31. I have stuck to thy testimonies, O Lord: put me not to shame.

118:32. I have run the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge
my heart.

HE.

118:33. Set before me for a law the way of thy justifications, O Lord:
and I will always seek after it.

118:34. Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; and I will
keep it with my whole heart.

118:35. Lead me into the path of thy commandments; for this same I have
desired.

118:36. Incline my heart into thy testimonies and not to covetousness.

118:37. Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me in
thy way.

118:38. Establish thy word to thy servant, in thy fear.

118:39. Turn away my reproach, which I have apprehended: for thy
judgments are delightful.

118:40. Behold I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy
justice.

VAU.

118: 41. Let thy mercy also come upon me, O Lord: thy salvation
according to thy word.

118:42. So shall I answer them that reproach me in any thing; that I
have trusted in thy words.

118:43. And take not thou the word of truth utterly out of my mouth: for
in thy words, I have hoped exceedingly.

118:44. So shall I always keep thy law, for ever and ever.

118:45. And I walked at large: because I have sought after thy
commandments.

118:46. And I spoke of thy testimonies before kings: and I was not
ashamed.

118:47. I meditated also on thy commandments, which I loved.

118:48. And I lifted up my hands to thy commandments, which I loved: and
I was exercised in thy justifications.

ZAIN.

118:49. Be thou m