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].
145. I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord; I will keep Your statutes [I will hear, receive, love, and obey them].
146. I cried to You; save me, that I may keep Your testimonies [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying them].
147. I anticipated the dawning of the morning and cried [in childlike prayer]; I hoped in Your word.
148. My eyes anticipate the night watches and I am awake before the cry of the watchman, that I may meditate on Your word.