For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

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

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

When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

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

Thy testimonies also {are} my delight {and} my counsellors. {my counsellors: Heb. men of my counsel}

{I had fainted}, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

But his delight {is} in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

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

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

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

Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they {are} the rejoicing of my heart.

Thy testimonies also {are} my delight {and} my counsellors. {my counsellors: Heb. men of my counsel}

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

O {thou that art} named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? {are} these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? {straitened: or, shortened?} {uprightly: Heb. upright?}

{It is} joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction {shall be} to the workers of iniquity.