Blessed [are] they that keep his testimonies, [and that] seek him with the whole heart.

Thou hast commanded [us] to keep thy precepts diligently.

Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.

With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

Blessed [art] thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.

I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as [much as] in all riches.

I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

My soul breaketh for the longing [that it hath] unto thy judgments at all times.

Remove from me reproach and contempt for I have kept thy testimonies.

Thy testimonies also [are] my delight [and] my counsellors.

I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.

My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.

I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid [before me].

I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law yea, I shall observe it with [my] whole heart.

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who [is devoted] to thy fear.

Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.

So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.

I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.

My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved and I will meditate in thy statutes.

This [is] my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.

I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD and have comforted myself.

Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

This I had, because I kept thy precepts.

I intreated thy favour with [my] whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.

I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.

The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.

Thou [art] good, and doest good teach me thy statutes.

Their heart is as fat as grease [but] I delight in thy law.

The law of thy mouth [is] better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.

They that fear thee will be glad when they see me because I have hoped in thy word.

Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.

Let the proud be ashamed for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: [but] I will meditate in thy precepts.

Let my heart be sound in thy statutes that I be not ashamed.

Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

How many [are] the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?

All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully help thou me.

Quicken me after thy lovingkindness so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

Thy faithfulness [is] unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.

Unless thy law [had been] my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

I [am] thine, save me for I have sought thy precepts.

I have seen an end of all perfection: [but] thy commandment [is] exceeding broad.

Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they [are] ever with me.

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.

Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

I have sworn, and I will perform [it], that I will keep thy righteous judgments.

Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.

The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, [even unto] the end.

God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,

But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to [the image of] Baal.

And if by grace, then [is it] no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if [it be] of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear) unto this day.

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

Now if the fall of them [be] the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles how much more their fulness?

If by any means I may provoke to emulation [them which are] my flesh, and might save some of them.

For if the firstfruit [be] holy, the lump [is] also [holy]: and if the root [be] holy, so [are] the branches.

Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

Well because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in [his] goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural [branches], be graffed into their own olive tree?