²² In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.

¹¹ Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;

²³ Then you will go safely on your way, and your feet will have no cause for slipping.

²⁴ When you take your rest you will have no fear, and on your bed sleep will be sweet to you.

¹⁸ After this, his face will be turned to the islands, and he will take a number of them: but a chief, by his destruction, will put an end to the shame offered by him; and more than this, he will make his shame come back on him.

¹⁹ Then his face will be turned to the strong places of his land: but his way will be stopped, causing his downfall, and he will not be seen again.

²⁰ Then his place will be taken by one who will send out a man with the glory of a king to get wealth together; but after a short time destruction will overtake him, but not in wrath or in the fight.

²¹ And his place will be taken by a low person, to whom the honour of the kingdom had not been given: but he will come in time of peace and will get the kingdom by fair words.

¹⁴⁸ In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.

⁹⁷ <MEM> O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day.

⁵⁴ Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.

²⁴ Your unchanging word is my delight, and the guide of my footsteps.

¹¹ I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.

⁹ <BETH> How may a young man make his way clean? by guiding it after your word.

³ O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents.

⁴ As for the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.