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.
161. Princes pursue and persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of Your words [dreading violation of them far more than the force of prince or potentate]. [I Sam. 24:11, 14; 26:18.]
162. I rejoice at Your word as one who finds great spoil.
163. I hate and abhor falsehood, but Your law do I love.
164. Seven times a day and all day long do I praise You because of Your righteous decrees.
165. Great peace have they who love Your law; nothing shall offend them or make them stumble. [Prov. 3:2; Isa. 32:17.]
166. I am hoping and waiting [eagerly] for Your salvation, O Lord, and I do Your commandments. [Gen. 49:18.]
167. Your testimonies have I kept [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying them]; I love them exceedingly!
168. I have observed Your precepts and Your testimonies, for all my ways are [fully known] before You.