² But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.

⁸ Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well.

³⁵ Make me go in the way of your teachings; for they are my delight.

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

⁹² If your law had not been my delight, my troubles would have put an end to me.

¹ Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.

²² In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,

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

⁹⁸ Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever.

⁹⁹ I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.

¹⁵ I will give thought to your orders, and have respect for your ways.

¹⁶ I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.

⁸ My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.

¹² I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.

³ For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

¹⁶ But to me your word is a joy, making my heart glad; for I am named by your name, O Lord God of armies.

¹ <ALEPH> Happy are they who are without sin in their ways, walking in the law of the Lord.

¹⁵ Have a care for these things; give yourself to them with all your heart, so that all may see how you go forward.

⁷² The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.

⁴⁷ And so that I may take delight in your teachings, to which I have given my love.

⁴⁸ And so that my hands may be stretched out to you; and I will give thought to your rules.

³⁴ Let my thoughts be sweet to him: I will be glad in the Lord.

³ I give praise to God, whose servant I have been, with a heart free from sin, from the time of my fathers, because in my prayers at all times the thought of you is with me, night and day

⁷ And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?

¹ <A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite.> O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

⁹ For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.

³⁷ She had been a widow for eighty-four years); she was in the Temple at all times, worshipping with prayers and going without food, night and day.