138. You have commanded and appointed Your testimonies in righteousness and in great faithfulness.
139. My zeal has consumed me and cut me off, because my adversaries have forgotten Your words.
140. Your word is very pure (tried and well refined); therefore Your servant loves it.
141. I am small (insignificant) and despised, but I do not forget Your precepts.
142. Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Your law is truth. [Ps. 19:9; John 17:17.]
143. Trouble and anguish have found and taken hold on me, yet Your commandments are my delight.
144. Your righteous testimonies are everlasting and Your decrees are binding to eternity; give me understanding and I shall live [give me discernment and comprehension and I shall not die].