Unless thy law {had been} my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. {have...: or, do wisely}

My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

MEM. O how love I thy law! it {is} my meditation all the day.

Moreover by them is thy servant warned: {and} in keeping of them {there is} great reward.

Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: {yet} thy commandments {are} my delights. {taken...: Heb. found me}

Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law {is} my delight.

And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of {that which is} before the priests the Levites:

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, {it is} because {there is} no light in them. {no...: Heb. no morning}

Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear {is} uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law {is} within my heart. {within...: Heb. in the midst of my bowels}

The law of the LORD {is} perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD {is} sure, making wise the simple. {law: or, doctrine} {converting: or, restoring}

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies {are} my meditation.

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

Unless thy law {had been} my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken {it}, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed {it}, I will also do it. {that...: Heb. of my counsel}

I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid {before me}.

To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear {is} uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.

When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and {when} thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law {is} my delight.

Until I went into the sanctuary of God; {then} understood I their end.

And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: {but} I will consider thy testimonies.

Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:

The statutes of the LORD {are} right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD {is} pure, enlightening the eyes.

In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law {is} my delight.

These {are} the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,