1. BLESSED (HAPPY, fortunate, to be envied) are the undefiled (the upright, truly sincere, and blameless) in the way [of the revealed will of God], who walk (order their conduct and conversation) in the law of the Lord (the whole of God's revealed will).
2. Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are they who keep His testimonies, and who seek, inquire for and of Him and crave Him with the whole heart.
3. Yes, they do no unrighteousness [no willful wandering from His precepts]; they walk in His ways. [I John 3:9; 5:18.]
4. You have commanded us to keep Your precepts, that we should observe them diligently.
5. Oh, that my ways were directed and established to observe Your statutes [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying them]!
6. Then shall I not be put to shame [by failing to inherit Your promises] when I have respect to all Your commandments.
7. I will praise and give thanks to You with uprightness of heart when I learn [by sanctified experiences] Your righteous judgments [Your decisions against and punishments for particular lines of thought and conduct].
8. I will keep Your statutes; O forsake me not utterly.