11. Your word have I laid up in my heart, that I might not sin against You.
12. Blessed are You, O Lord; teach me Your statutes.
13. With my lips have I declared and recounted all the ordinances of Your mouth.
14. I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies as much as in all riches.
15. I will meditate on Your precepts and have respect to Your ways [the paths of life marked out by Your law]. [Ps. 104:34.]
16. I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
17. Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live; and I will observe Your word [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying it]. [Ps. 119:97-101.]
18. Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Your law.
19. I am a stranger and a temporary resident on the earth; hide not Your commandments from me. [Gen. 47:9; I Chron. 29:15; Ps. 39:12; II Cor. 5:6; Heb. 11:13.]
20. My heart is breaking with the longing that it has for Your ordinances and judgments at all times.
21. You rebuke the proud and arrogant, the accursed ones, who err and wander from Your commandments.
22. Take away from me reproach and contempt, for I keep Your testimonies.
23. Princes also sat and talked against me, but Your servant meditated on Your statutes.
24. Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.
25. My earthly life cleaves to the dust; revive and stimulate me according to Your word! [Ps. 143:11.]
26. I have declared my ways and opened my griefs to You, and You listened to me; teach me Your statutes.
27. Make me understand the way of Your precepts; so shall I meditate on and talk of Your wondrous works. [Ps. 145:5, 6.]
28. My life dissolves and weeps itself away for heaviness; raise me up and strengthen me according to [the promises of] Your word.
29. Remove from me the way of falsehood and unfaithfulness [to You], and graciously impart Your law to me.