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Psalm 118 📜 📕 ↷
LORD Is on My Side
1 ALLELUIA. Aleph. Doctrine. Blessed are the immaculate in the way: which walk in the law of our Lord.📜💬📚
2 Blessed are they that search his testimonies: that seek after him with all their heart.📜💬📚
3 For they that work iniquity, have not walked in his ways.📜💬📚
4 Thou hast very much commanded thy commandments to be kept.📜💬📚
5 Would God my ways might be directed, to keep thy justifications.📜💬📚
6 Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall look throughly in all thy commandments.📜💬📚
7 I will confess to thee in direction of heart: in that I have learned the judgments of thy justice.📜💬📚
8 I will keep thy justifications: forsake me not wholly.📜💬📚
9 Beth. House. Wherein doth a young man correct his way? In keeping thy words.📜💬📚
10 With my whole heart I have sought after thee: repel me not from thy commandments.📜💬📚
11 In my heart I have hid thy words: that I may not sin to thee.📜💬📚
12 Blessed art thou, o Lord: teach me thy justifications.📜💬📚
13 In my lips I have pronounced all the judgments of thy mouth.📜💬📚
14 I am delighted in the way of thy testimonies, as in all riches.📜💬📚
15 I will be exercised in thy commandments: and I will consider thy ways.📜💬📚
16 I will meditate in thy justifications: I will not forget thy words.📜💬📚
17 Gimel. Fullness. Render to thy servant, quicken me: and I shall keep thy words.📜💬📚
18 Reveal mine eyes: and I shall consider the marvelous things of thy law.📜💬📚
19 I am a sojourner in the land, hide not thy commandments from me.📜💬📚
20 My soul hath coveted to desire thy justifications, at all time.📜💬📚
21 Thou hast rebuked the proud: cursed are they that decline from thy commandments.📜💬📚
22 Take from me reproach, and contempt: because I have sought after thy testimonies.📜💬📚
23 For Princes sat, and they spake against me: but thy servant was exercised in thy justifications.📜💬📚
24 For both thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my counsel.📜💬📚
25 Daleth. Of Tables. My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken me according to thy word.📜💬📚
26 I have uttered my ways, and thou hast heard me: teach me thy justifications.📜💬📚
27 Instruct me the way of thy justifications: and I shall be exercised in thy marvelous works.📜💬📚
28 My soul hath slumbered for tediousness: confirm me in thy words.📜💬📚
29 Remove from me the way of iniquity: and according to thy law, have mercy on me.📜💬📚
30 I have chosen the way of truth: I have not forgotten thy judgments.📜💬📚
31 I have cleaved to thy testimonies, o Lord: do not confound me.📜💬📚
32 I ran the way of thy commandments: when thou didst dilate my heart.📜💬📚
33 He. This thing. Set me a law, o Lord, the way of thy justifications: and I will seek after it always.📜💬📚
34 Give me understanding, and I will search thy law: and I will keep it with my whole heart.📜💬📚
35 Conduct me into the path of thy commandments: because I would it.📜💬📚
36 Incline my heart into thy testimonies: and not into avarice.📜💬📚
37 Turn away mine eyes that they see not vanity: in thy way quicken me.📜💬📚
38 Establish thy word to thy servant, in thy fear.📜💬📚
39 Take away my reproach, which I have feared: because thy judgments are pleasant.📜💬📚
40 Behold I have coveted thy commandments: in thine equity quicken me.📜💬📚
41 Vau. And. And let thy mercy come upon me, o Lord: thy salvation according to thy word.📜💬📚
42 And I shall answer a word to them that upbraid me: because I have hoped in thy words.📜💬📚
43 And take not away out of my mouth the word of truth utterly: because I have much hoped in thy judgments.📜💬📚
44 And I will keep thy law always: for ever, and for ever and ever.📜💬📚
45 And I walked in largeness: because I have sought after thy commandments.📜💬📚
46 And I spake of thy testimonies in the sight of kings: and was not confounded.📜💬📚
47 And I meditated in thy commandments, which I loved.📜💬📚
48 And I have lifted up my hands to thy commandments, which I loved: and I was exercised in thy justifications.📜💬📚
49 Zain. This. Be mindful of thy word to thy servant, wherein thou hast given me hope.📜💬📚
50 This hath comforted me in my humiliation: because thy word hath quickened me.📜💬📚
51 The proud did unjustly exceedingly: but I declined not from thy law.📜💬📚
52 I have been mindful of thy judgments from everlasting, o Lord: and was comforted.📜💬📚
53 Fainting possessed me, because of sinners forsaking thy Law.📜💬📚
54 Thy justifications were song by me, in the place of my peregrination.📜💬📚
55 I have been mindful in the night of thy name, o Lord: and have kept thy law.📜💬📚
56 This was done to me: because I sought after thy justifications.📜💬📚
57 Heth. Life. My portion, o Lord, I said to keep thy law.📜💬📚
58 I besought thy face, with all my heart: have mercy on me according to thy word.📜💬📚
59 I thought upon my ways: and converted my feet unto thy testimonies.📜💬📚
60 I am prepared, and am not troubled: to keep thy commandments.📜💬📚
61 The cords of sinners have wrapped me round about: and I have not forgotten thy law.📜💬📚
62 At mid-night I rose to confess to thee, for the judgments of thy justification.📜💬📚
63 I am partaker of all that fear thee: and that keep thy commandments.📜💬📚
64 The earth, o Lord, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy justifications.📜💬📚
65 Teth. Good. Thou hast done bounty with thy servant, o Lord: according to thy word.📜💬📚
66 Teach me goodness, and discipline, and knowledge: because I have believed thy commandments.📜💬📚
67 Before I was humbled I offended: therefore have I kept thy word.📜💬📚
68 Thou art good: and in thy goodness teach me thy justifications.📜💬📚
69 The iniquity of the proud is multiplied upon me: but I in all my heart will search thy commandments.📜💬📚
70 Their heart is curdled together as milk: but I have meditated thy law.📜💬📚
71 It is good for me that thou hast humbled me: that I may learn thy justifications.📜💬📚
72 The law of thy mouth is good unto me, above thousands of gold and silver.📜💬📚
73 Jod. Beginning. Thy hands have made me, and formed me: give me understanding, and I will learn thy commandments.📜💬📚
74 They that fear thee shall see me, & shall rejoice: because I have much hoped in thy words.📜💬📚
75 I know, o Lord, that thy judgments are equity: and in thy truth thou hast humbled me.📜💬📚
76 Let thy mercy be done to comfort me, according to thy word unto thy servant.📜💬📚
77 Let thy commiserations come to me, and I shall live: because thy law is my meditation.📜💬📚
78 Let the proud be confounded, because they have done unjustly toward me: but I will be exercised in thy commandments.📜💬📚
79 Let them be converted to me that fear thee: and that know thy testimonies.📜💬📚
80 Let my heart be made immaculate in thy justifications, that I be not confounded.📜💬📚
81 Caph. Hand, or Palm of the hand. My soul hath fainted for thy salvation: and I have much hoped in thy word.📜💬📚
82 Mine eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort me?📜💬📚
83 Because I am made as a bottle in the hoar frost: I have not forgotten thy justifications.📜💬📚
84 How many are the days of thy servant: when wilt thou do judgment on them that persecute me?📜💬📚
85 The unjust have told me fables: but not as thy law.📜💬📚
86 All thy commandments are truth: they have unjustly persecuted me, help me.📜💬📚
87 They have well near made end of me in the earth: but I have not forsaken thy commandments.📜💬📚
88 According to thy mercy quicken me: and I shall keep the testimonies of thy mouth.📜💬📚
89 Lamed. Discipline. For ever Lord thy word is permanent in heaven.📜💬📚
90 Thy truth in generation and generation: thou hast founded the earth, and it is permanent.📜💬📚
91 By thy ordinance the day continueth: because all things serve thee.📜💬📚
92 But that thy law is my meditation: I had then perhaps perished in my humiliation.📜💬📚
93 I will not forget thy justifications for ever: because in them thou hast quickened me.📜💬📚
94 I am thine, save me: because I have sought out thy justifications.📜💬📚
95 Sinners have expected me to destroy me: I understood thy testimonies.📜💬📚
96 Of all consummation I have seen the end: thy commandment is exceeding large.📜💬📚
97 Mem. Of them. How have I loved thy law, o Lord! All the day it is my meditation.📜💬📚
98 Above mine enemies thou hast made me wise by thy commandment: because it is to me for ever.📜💬📚
99 Above all that taught me have I understood: because thy testimonies are my meditation.📜💬📚
100 Above ancients have I understood: because I have sought thy commandments.📜💬📚
101 I have stayed my feet from all evil way: that I may keep thy words.📜💬📚
102 I have not declined from thy judgments: because thou hast set me a law.📜💬📚
103 How sweet are thy words to my jaws. More than honey to my mouth!📜💬📚
104 By thy commandments I have understood: therefore have I hated all the way of iniquity.📜💬📚
105 Nun. Everlasting. Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths.📜💬📚
106 I sware, and have determined to keep the judgments of thy justice.📜💬📚
107 I am humbled exceedingly, o Lord: quicken me according to thy word.📜💬📚
108 The voluntaries of my mouth make acceptable, o Lord: and teach me thy judgments.📜💬📚
109 My soul is in my hands always: and I have not forgotten thy law.📜💬📚
110 Sinners laid a snare for me: and I have not erred from thy commandments.📜💬📚
111 For inheritance I have purchased thy testimonies for ever: because they are the joy of my heart.📜💬📚
112 I have inclined my heart to do thy justifications for ever, for reward.📜💬📚
113 Samech. Help. I have hated the unjust: and I have loved thy law.📜💬📚
114 Thou art my helper, and protector: and upon thy word I have much hoped.📜💬📚
115 Depart from me ye malignant: and I will search the commandments of my God.📜💬📚
116 Receive me according to thy word, and I shall live: and confound me not of mine expectation.📜💬📚
117 Help me, and I shall be saved: and I will meditate in thy justifications always.📜💬📚
118 Thou hast despised all that revolt from thy judgments: because their cogitation is unjust.📜💬📚
119 All the sinners of the earth I have reputed prevaricators: therefore have I loved thy testimonies.📜💬📚
120 Pierce my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy judgments.📜💬📚
121 Ain. A fountain or an eye. I have done judgment and justice: deliver me not to them that calumniate me.📜💬📚
122 Receive thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me.📜💬📚
123 Mine eyes have failed after thy salvation: and for the word of thy justice.📜💬📚
124 Do with thy servant according to thy mercy: and teach me thy justifications.📜💬📚
125 I am thy servant: give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.📜💬📚
126 It is time to do, o Lord: they have dissipated thy law.📜💬📚
127 Therefore have I loved thy commandments, above gold and topazius.📜💬📚
128 Therefore was I directed to all thy commandments: all wicked way I have hated.📜💬📚
129 Phe. Mouth. Thy testimonies are marvelous: therefore hath my soul searched them.📜💬📚
130 The declaration of thy words doth illuminate: and giveth understanding to little ones.📜💬📚
131 I opened my mouth, and drew breath: because I desired thy commandments.📜💬📚
132 Look upon me, and have mercy on me, according to the judgment of them that love thy name.📜💬📚
133 Direct my steps according to thy word: and let not any injustice have dominion over me.📜💬📚
134 Redeem me from the calumnies of men: that I may keep thy commandments.📜💬📚
135 Illuminate thy face upon thy servant: and teach me thy justifications.📜💬📚
136 Mine eyes have gushed forth issues of waters: because they have not kept thy law.📜💬📚
137 Sade. Justice. Thou art just, o Lord: and thy judgment is right.📜💬📚
138 Thou hast commanded justice thy testimonies: and thy verity exceedingly.📜💬📚
139 My zeal hath made me to pine away: because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.📜💬📚
140 Thy word is fired exceedingly: and thy servant hath loved it.📜💬📚
141 I am a youngman, and contemned: I have not forgotten thy justifications.📜💬📚
142 Thy justice is justice for ever: and thy law is verity.📜💬📚
143 Tribulation and distress have found me: thy commandments are my meditation.📜💬📚
144 Thy testimonies are equity for ever, give me understanding, and I shall live.📜💬📚
145 Coph. Vocation. I have cried in my whole heart, hear me, o Lord: I will seek after thy justifications.📜💬📚
146 I have cried to thee, save me: that I may keep thy commandments.📜💬📚
147 I have prevented in maturity, and have cried: because I hoped much in thy words.📜💬📚
148 Mine eyes have prevented early unto thee: that I might meditate thy words.📜💬📚
149 Hear my voice according to thy mercy, o Lord: and according to thy judgment quicken me.📜💬📚
150 They that persecute me have approached to iniquity: but from thy law they are made far off.📜💬📚
151 Thou art nigh, o Lord: and all thy ways are truth.📜💬📚
152 From the beginning I knew of thy testimonies: that thou hast founded them for ever.📜💬📚
153 Res. Head. See my humiliation, and deliver me: because I have not forgotten thy law.📜💬📚
154 Judge my judgment, & redeem me: for thy word quicken thou me.📜💬📚
155 Salvation is far from sinners: because they have not sought after thy justifications.📜💬📚
156 Thy mercies are many, o Lord: according to thy judgment quicken me.📜💬📚
157 There are many that persecute me, and afflict me: I have not declined from thy testimonies.📜💬📚
158 I saw the prevaricators, and I pined away: because they kept not thy words.📜💬📚
159 See that I have loved thy commandments, o Lord: in thy mercy quicken me.📜💬📚
160 The beginning of thy words is truth: all the judgments of thy justice are for ever.📜💬📚
161 Sin. Tooth. Princes have persecuted me without cause: and my heart hath been afraid of thy words.📜💬📚
162 I will rejoice at thy words: as he that findeth many spoils.📜💬📚
163 I have heard iniquity, and abhorred it: but thy law I have loved.📜💬📚
164 Seven times in the day I have said praise to thee, for the judgments of thy justice.📜💬📚
165 There is much peace to them that love thy law: & there is no scandal to them.📜💬📚
166 I expected thy salvation, o Lord: and have loved thy commandments.📜💬📚
167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies: & hath loved them exceedingly.📜💬📚
168 I have kept thy commandments, and thy testimonies: because all my ways are in thy sight.📜💬📚
169 Tau. Sign. Let my petition approach in thy sight, o Lord: according to thy word give me understanding.📜💬📚
170 Let my request enter in thy sight: according to thy word deliver me.📜💬📚
171 My lips shall utter an hymn, when thou shalt teach me thy justifications.📜💬📚
172 My tongue shall pronounce thy word: because all thy commandments are equity.📜💬📚
173 Let thy hand be to save me: because I have chosen thy commandments.📜💬📚
174 I have coveted thy salvation, o Lord: and thy law is my meditation.📜💬📚
175 My soul shall live, and shall praise thee: and thy judgments shall help me.📜💬📚
176 I have strayed as a sheep that is lost: seek thy servant, because I have not forgotten thy commandments.📜💬📚
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