Mem

⁹⁷Oh how xI love your law!

It is my ymeditation all the day.

⁹⁸Your commandment makes me zwiser than my enemies,

for it is ever with me.

⁹⁹I have more understanding than all my teachers,

for ayour testimonies are my meditation.

¹⁰⁰I understand more than bthe aged,8

for I ckeep your precepts.

¹⁰¹I dhold back my feet from every evil way,

in order to keep your word.

¹⁰²I do not turn aside from your rules,

for you have taught me.

¹⁰³How esweet are your words to my taste,

sweeter than honey to my mouth!

¹⁰⁴Through your precepts I get understanding;

therefore fI hate every false way.

Nun

¹⁰⁵gYour word is a lamp to my feet

and a light to my path.

¹⁰⁶I have hsworn an oath and confirmed it,

to keep your irighteous rules.

¹⁰⁷I am severely jafflicted;

kgive me life, O Lord, according to your word!

¹⁰⁸Accept lmy freewill offerings of praise, O Lord,

and mteach me your rules.

¹⁰⁹I hold my life nin my hand continually,

but I do not oforget your law.

¹¹⁰The wicked have laid pa snare for me,

but qI do not stray from your precepts.

¹¹¹Your testimonies are rmy heritage forever,

for they are sthe joy of my heart.

¹¹²I tincline my heart to perform your statutes

forever, uto the end.9