88. According to Your steadfast love give life to me; then I will keep the testimony of Your mouth [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying it].
89. Forever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven [stands firm as the heavens]. [Ps. 89:2; Matt. 24:34, 35; I Pet. 1:25.]
90. Your faithfulness is from generation to generation; You have established the earth, and it stands fast.
91. All [the whole universe] are Your servants; therefore they continue this day according to Your ordinances. [Jer. 33:25.]
92. Unless Your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
93. I will never forget Your precepts, [how can I?] for it is by them You have quickened me (granted me life).
94. I am Yours, therefore save me [Your own]; for I have sought (inquired of and for) Your precepts and required them [as my urgent need]. [Ps. 42:1.]