143. Tribulation and anguish have found me. Your commandments are my meditation.
144. Your testimonies are fairness unto eternity. Give me understanding, and I will live.
145. COPH. I cried out with my whole heart. Heed me, O Lord. I will ask for your justifications.
146. I cried out to you. Save me, so that I may keep your commandments.
147. I arrived first in maturity, and so I cried out. For in your words, I have hoped beyond hope.
148. My eyes preceded the dawn for you, so that I might meditate on your eloquence.
149. Hear my voice according to your mercy, O Lord. And revive me according to your judgment.
150. Those who persecute me have drawn near to iniquity, but they been brought far from your law.
151. You are near, O Lord, and all your ways are truth.