7. I will praise and give thanks to You with uprightness of heart when I learn [by sanctified experiences] Your righteous judgments [Your decisions against and punishments for particular lines of thought and conduct].
8. I will keep Your statutes; O forsake me not utterly.
9. How shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed and keeping watch [on himself] according to Your word [conforming his life to it].
10. With my whole heart have I sought You, inquiring for and of You and yearning for You; Oh, let me not wander or step aside [either in ignorance or willfully] from Your commandments. [II Chron. 15:15.]
11. Your word have I laid up in my heart, that I might not sin against You.
12. Blessed are You, O Lord; teach me Your statutes.
13. With my lips have I declared and recounted all the ordinances of Your mouth.
14. I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies as much as in all riches.
15. I will meditate on Your precepts and have respect to Your ways [the paths of life marked out by Your law]. [Ps. 104:34.]
16. I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
17. Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live; and I will observe Your word [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying it]. [Ps. 119:97-101.]
18. Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Your law.
19. I am a stranger and a temporary resident on the earth; hide not Your commandments from me. [Gen. 47:9; I Chron. 29:15; Ps. 39:12; II Cor. 5:6; Heb. 11:13.]
20. My heart is breaking with the longing that it has for Your ordinances and judgments at all times.
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.]