¹⁷⁴ All my desire has been for your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my delight.

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

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

²³ I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:

²³ And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies.

²⁴ For our salvation is by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for who is hoping for what he sees?

²⁵ But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.

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

²³ But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.

²⁴ How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?

²⁵ I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.

⁸ I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.

¹² Hope put off is a weariness to the heart; but when what is desired comes, it is a tree of life.

¹⁶⁶ Lord, my hope has been in your salvation; and I have kept your teachings.

¹⁶⁷ My soul has kept your unchanging word; great is my love for it.

¹⁶² I am delighted by your saying, like a man who makes discovery of great wealth.

¹¹¹ I have taken your unchanging word as an eternal heritage; for it is the joy of my heart.

⁸¹ <CAPH> My soul is wasted with desire for your salvation: but I have hope in your word.

⁷⁷ Let your gentle mercies come to me, so that I may have life; for your law is my delight.

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

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

⁵ For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?

¹⁸ I have been waiting for your salvation, O Lord.