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.
149. Hear my voice according to Your steadfast love; O Lord, quicken me and give me life according to Your [righteous] decrees.
150. They draw near who follow after wrong thinking and persecute me with wickedness; they are far from Your law.
151. You are near, O Lord [nearer to me than my foes], and all Your commandments are truth.
152. Of old have I known Your testimonies, and for a long time, [therefore it is a thoroughly established conviction] that You have founded them forever. [Luke 21:33.]
153. Consider my affliction and deliver me, for I do not forget Your law.
154. Plead my cause and redeem me; revive me and give me life according to Your word.
155. Salvation is far from the wicked, for they seek not nor hunger for Your statutes.
156. Great are Your tender mercy and loving-kindness, O Lord; give me life according to Your ordinances.
157. Many are my persecutors and my adversaries, yet I do not swerve from Your testimonies.
158. I behold the treacherous and am grieved and loathe them, because they do not respect Your law [neither hearing, receiving, loving, nor obeying it].
159. Consider how I love Your precepts; revive me and give life to me, O Lord, according to Your loving-kindness!
160. The sum of Your word is truth [the total of the full meaning of all Your individual precepts]; and every one of Your righteous decrees endures forever.