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.
152. I have known from the beginning about your testimonies. For you founded them in eternity.
153. RES. See my humiliation and rescue me, for I have not forgotten your law.
154. Judge my judgment and redeem me. Revive me because of your eloquence.
155. Salvation is far from sinners, because they have not inquired about your justifications.
156. Many are your mercies, O Lord. Enliven me according to your judgment.
157. Many are those who persecute me and who trouble me. I have not turned away from your testimonies.
158. I saw the prevaricators, and I pine away. For they have not kept your word.
159. O Lord, see how I have loved your commandments. Revive me in your mercy.
160. The beginning of your words is truth. All the judgments of your justice are for eternity.
161. SIN. The leaders have persecuted me without cause. And my heart has been awed by your words.
162. I will rejoice over your eloquence, like one who has found many spoils.
163. I have held hatred for iniquity, and I have abhorred it. Yet I have loved your law.
164. Seven times a day, I uttered praise to you about the judgments of your justice.