47. For I will delight myself in Your commandments, which I love.
48. My hands also will I lift up [in fervent supplication] to Your commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on Your statutes.
49. Remember [fervently] the word and promise to Your servant, in which You have caused me to hope.
50. This is my comfort and consolation in my affliction: that Your word has revived me and given me life. [Rom. 15:4.]
51. The proud have had me greatly in derision, yet have I not declined in my interest in or turned aside from Your law.
52. When I have [earnestly] recalled Your ordinances from of old, O Lord, I have taken comfort.
53. Burning indignation, terror, and sadness seize upon me because of the wicked, who forsake Your law.
54. Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
55. I have [earnestly] remembered Your name, O Lord, in the night, and I have observed Your law.
56. This I have had [as the gift of Your grace and as my reward]: that I have kept Your precepts [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying them].
57. You are my portion, O Lord; I have promised to keep Your words.