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.